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Author: John R. Yamamoto-Wilson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317084373 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 298
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Luther’s 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the central issues of religious thought. In order to chart the processes by which religious discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalized during the period from the Renaissance to the end of the seventeenth century, this book examines a number of works on the subject translated into English from (mainly) Spanish and Italian. Through such an investigation, it is possible to see how the translators and editors of such works demonstrate, in their prefaces and comments as well as in their fidelity or otherwise to the original text, an awareness that attitudes in England are different from those in Catholic countries. Furthermore, by comparing these translations with the discourse of native English writers of the period, a number of conclusions can be drawn regarding the ways in which Protestant England moved away from pre-Reformation attitudes of suffering and evolved separately from the Catholic culture which continued to hold sway in the south of Europe. The central conclusion is that once the theological justifications for undergoing, inflicting, or witnessing pain and suffering have been removed, discourses of pain largely cease to have a legitimate context and any kind of fascination with pain comes to seem perverse, if not perverted. The author observes an increasing sense of discomfort throughout the seventeenth century with texts which betray such fascination. Combining elements of theology, literature and history, this book provides a fascinating perspective on one of the key conundrums of early modern religious history.
Author: John R. Yamamoto-Wilson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317084373 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 298
Book Description
Luther’s 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the central issues of religious thought. In order to chart the processes by which religious discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalized during the period from the Renaissance to the end of the seventeenth century, this book examines a number of works on the subject translated into English from (mainly) Spanish and Italian. Through such an investigation, it is possible to see how the translators and editors of such works demonstrate, in their prefaces and comments as well as in their fidelity or otherwise to the original text, an awareness that attitudes in England are different from those in Catholic countries. Furthermore, by comparing these translations with the discourse of native English writers of the period, a number of conclusions can be drawn regarding the ways in which Protestant England moved away from pre-Reformation attitudes of suffering and evolved separately from the Catholic culture which continued to hold sway in the south of Europe. The central conclusion is that once the theological justifications for undergoing, inflicting, or witnessing pain and suffering have been removed, discourses of pain largely cease to have a legitimate context and any kind of fascination with pain comes to seem perverse, if not perverted. The author observes an increasing sense of discomfort throughout the seventeenth century with texts which betray such fascination. Combining elements of theology, literature and history, this book provides a fascinating perspective on one of the key conundrums of early modern religious history.
Author: Henry Rutgers Marshall Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781295391752 Category : Languages : en Pages : 398
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Author: Anonymous Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230206257 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF PLEASURE AND PAIN--II Introductory Summary According to the formula reached in Chap. IV., pleasure results from the use of surplus stored force in the organ whose activity determines the mental state or psychosis; and pain is determined by the reception of a stimulus to which the organ is incapable of reacting completely. The verification of this hypothesis necessitates very technical treatment, and I shall not ask the reader, who is not interested in the full argument, to follow its steps in any detail in this summary. If we ask what laws of rise and failure of pleasure we should look for under our hypothesis, we find that we are led to adopt a formula which appears to be a correct psychological statement of the effect of habit in the deadening of pain and in the production of pleasure (p. 225 ff.). We find a basis for the relation between rhythmic action and pleasure-pain phenomena (p. 231), and we are able to account for the evanescence of pleasure and for the relative persistence of pain (p. 232). We find, further (p. 233 ff.), that many states of mind which would necessarily involve the conditions of pain or of pleasure under our theory, are found to be painful or pleasurable respectively as we should expect them to be. When we consider states of mind which involve fixity of mental elements we are able (p. 238 ff.) to trace the laws which we have found corroborated in the region of sensation, through all mental fields in which we are able to find alterations of relations of activity to effectiveness without change of the elements present before the mind. If we proceed by another method (p. 257 ff.) we find corroboration of this view in the means adopted as the result of experience in order to produce...
Author: Marshall Henry Rutgers Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9780526414994 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
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Author: Henry Rutgers Marshall Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781289830267 Category : Languages : en Pages : 390
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