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:	9789048167821
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/03/2010
Series:	International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées , #189
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Pages:	506
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.04(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”.