Philosophia perennis: Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought

by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann

Overview

The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402030666
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	09/12/2005
Series:	International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées , #189
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	506
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination.- Outlines of Perennial Philosophy.- Glory.- Divine Names.- Kosmos Anthropos.- Archetypes.- Spiritual Spaces.- Theology of Time.- The Return of Time.- Epochs and Eras.- Translatio Sapientiae.- The Echo of Perennial Philosophy.- Schelling's “World-Ages”.