The Counter-RenaissanceThis stimulating reassessment of Renaissance thought produces evidence of an intellectual revolt in the sixteenth century, led by such men as Calvin, Luther, Montaigne, and Machiavelli, that ran counter to the prevailing concepts of Christian humanism and the sovereignty of reason. The author explores the influence of this challenging movement on contemporaries and on their successors, "those enigmatic and volatile individuals whom we term the Elizabethans." Writing with impeccable scholarship, leavened by a delightful literary style, Mr. Haydn has achieved a masterpiece of intellectual history. -4e de couv. |
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Page 83
... reason , " and that humanistic learning whose end was virtuous action , were all being discredited as inimical to the doctrine of God's inscrutable grace and his exclusive power . It is this later development against which Richard ...
... reason , " and that humanistic learning whose end was virtuous action , were all being discredited as inimical to the doctrine of God's inscrutable grace and his exclusive power . It is this later development against which Richard ...
Page 86
... Reason and Nature is once more effected with the Scientific Reformation , Nature has ceased now to be teleological , “ meaningful " and " purposeful . " Men no longer measure her qualitatively , but quantitatively . The distrust which ...
... Reason and Nature is once more effected with the Scientific Reformation , Nature has ceased now to be teleological , “ meaningful " and " purposeful . " Men no longer measure her qualitatively , but quantitatively . The distrust which ...
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... reason . Here are your reasons : You know an enemy intends you harm , You know a sword employ'd is perilous , And reason flies the object of all harm . . 194 Reason vs. honor , and again Troilus links reason with the op- posite of ...
... reason . Here are your reasons : You know an enemy intends you harm , You know a sword employ'd is perilous , And reason flies the object of all harm . . 194 Reason vs. honor , and again Troilus links reason with the op- posite of ...
Contents
PROLOGUE The Enigmatic Elizabethans | 1 |
2 The CounterRenaissance and the Vanity of Learning | 76 |
The CounterRenaissance and the Repeal of Universal | 131 |
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