On Religion and Memory

Contents

contents List of Abbreviations vii Preface ix Introduction: On Religion and Pastness burcht pranger 1 Part I time and eternity: between and betwixt 1. The Vision at Ostia: Augustine’s Desire to Become a Red Indian burcht pranger 17 2. Memory and the Sublime: Wittgenstein on Augustine’s Trouble with Time james wetzel 32 Part II moving progressively backward 3. The Man without Memory: Peter Abelard and Trust in History babette hellemans 45 4. Creation and Epiphanic Incarnation: Reflections on the Future of Natural Theology from an EriugenianEmersonian Perspective willemien otten 64 5. The Care of the Past: The Place of Pastness in Transgenerational Projects charles hallisey 89 6. Trembling in Time: Silence and Meaning between Barthes, Chateaubriand, and Rancé mette birkedal bruun 100 vi Contents Part III time and the ordinary 7. The Literary Comfort of Eternity: Calvin and Thoreau ernst van den hemel 123 8. The Past and History in Ordinary Language Philosophy asja szafraniec 137 Part IV time and lateness 9. From Past to Present and from Listening to Hearing: Final Indefinable Moments in Bach’s and Stravinsky’s Music rokus de groot 155 10. Late Style Messiaen sander van maas 175 Part V time and oblivion 11. Of Shakespeare and Pastness brian cummings 189 12. The Anger of Angels: From Rubens to Virginia Woolf peter cramer 204 Notes 231 List of Contributors 269 ...