On Religion and Memory

TitleOn Religion and Memory
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsBurcht Pranger, Willemien Otten, Babette Hellemans
PublisherFordham University Press
CityNew York
ISBN Number978-0-8232-5164-3
Abstract

This volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine's paradox of time: How does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the guise of an indivisible "now," cuts off any extension of the present? The thinkers and artists the essays address include Augustine, Abelard, Eriugena and Thoreau, Calvin, Shakespeare, De Rancé, Stravinsky and Messiaen, Rubens and Woolf.