Philosophia perennis: Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought (International Archives of the History ... internationales d'histoire des idées, 189)

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. Philosophia perennis: Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought Author: Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann Published by Springer Netherlands ISBN: 978-1-4020-3066-6 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-3067-3 Table of Contents: Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination Outlines of Perennial Philosophy Divine Names Kosmos Anthropos Archetypes Spiritual Spaces The Return of Time Epochs and Eras Translatio Sapientiae Schelling's “World-Ages” Front Matter....Pages i-xix Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination....Pages 3-25 Outlines of Perennial Philosophy....Pages 27-56 Divine Names....Pages 59-128 Kosmos Anthropos....Pages 129-207 Archetypes....Pages 209-272 Spiritual Spaces....Pages 273-324 The Return of Time....Pages 327-367 Epochs and Eras....Pages 369-408 Translatio Sapientiae....Pages 409-441 Schelling's “World-Ages”....Pages 445-467 Back Matter....Pages 469-504 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. -- From back cover