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2.8 - Christian Platonism in the Age of Romanticism

from II - History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2021

By
Douglas Hedley
Edited by
Alexander J. B. Hampton  and
John Peter Kenney
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
John Peter Kenney
Affiliation:
Saint Michael's College, Vermont
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This chapter explores the protean character of Christian Platonism in the Romantic Age. If the Enlightenment was frequently shaped by a critique of dogma, tradition and superstition, the Romantics were concerned with the loss of culture, the exaltation of abstract reason, and a longing for the transcendent. Platonism offered a means for revitalizing Christianity, caught between the cultured despisers of religion in the Enlightenment, and the annexation of creation to the mechanistic thought of the emergent natural sciences.

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RomanticismColeridgeCounter-EnlightenmentJena RomanticismEnglish Romanticism
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Christian Platonism
A History
 , pp. 303 - 321
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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