Richard K. Fenn

The Persistence of Purgatory the Persistence of Purgatory

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Produktbeschreibung

Richard K. Fenn focuses in this study on the significance of time in modern society, and on the question of why we take it so seriously. he traces contemporary Western attitudes toward time back to the doctrine and myth of purgatory, and makes a provocative case to the effect that, especially for Americans, the sense of the scarcity of time is a sign of social character which is shaped by a 'purgatorial complex.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 317g
• ISBN-13: 9780521568555
• ISBN-10: 0521568552
• Artikelnr.: 22130556

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Testing claims to grace: the intensification of time
1. Silent anguish: distinguishing the cure for soul-loss from the disease
2. Purgatory as a way of life: time as the essence of the soul
3. The modern self emerges: Baxter, Locke and the prospect of heaven
4. Locke, reason and the soul
5. The American purgatory and the state
6. Protestants and Catholics in the American purgatory
7. Charles Dickens in the American purgatory: the eternal foreground
Epilogue.