This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental concepts of the heart to discover its past mysteries. Historical hearts evidenced essential aspects of human existence that still endure in modern thought and experience of political community, psychological mentality, and physical vitality. Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle revises ordinary assumptions about the heart with original interdisciplinary research on religious beliefs and theological and philosophical ideas. Her book uncovers the thought of Aristotle, William Harvey, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvinas it relates to the heart. It analyzes Augustine's outlaw heart in cultural deviance from biblical law; Aquinas's problematic argument for the permanence of the natural law in the heart; and Calvin's advocacy for an affective heart re-created by the Spirit from its fallen nature. This book of cultural anatomies is the climax of her dozen years of publications on the heart.
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle is an intellectual and cultural historian specializing in Christian thought from the biblical to the early modern eras. She was early awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in religion.
Autorentext
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle is an intellectual and cultural historian specializing in Christian thought from the biblical to the early modern eras. She was early awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in religion.
Inhalt
Introduction
Aristotle's Cardiac Vessel
Augustine's Law of the Heart: Theives' Honor
Aquinas's Law of the Heart: Natural Reason
John Calvin, Heart in Hand
Harvey, by Hercules! The Hero of the Blood's Circulation
Bibliography
Titel
Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey
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EAN
9783319936536
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E-Book (pdf)
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Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
04.09.2018
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2.36 MB
Anzahl Seiten
171
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