Cover

Tilte

Copyright

Contents

Preface

1. Guilt Culture to Enlightenment

Introduction

Hypothesis

Guilt Culture in Europe: Saint Augustine

Egyptian Gold: Guilt-Culture Humanism

Renaissance: Guilt Culture and Enlightenment

Hennes the Magus

Pico della Mirandola

Reformation: Enlightenment and Guilt Culture

Conclusion

2. Augustinian Spirituality and the Holy Sonnets of John Donne

The Franciscan Augustine

John Donne: Augustinian

The Holy Sonnets: Augustinian Devotion

John Donne: Latitude Man

3. Augustinian Spiritualityand George Herbert's The Temple

Donne and Herbert

Herbert and the Augustinian Tradition

The Biblia Pauperum

The Temple: Augustinian Devotion

4. George Herbert and Juan de Valdes: The Franciscan Mode and Protestant Manner

Herbert and Juan de Valdes

Valdes: The Augustinian Background

Valdes: The Theology

Valdes and Herbert

Herbert: The Temple

5. Henry Vaughan and the Hermetic Philosophy

Vaughan and Herbert

Vaughan's Theology

Henry Vaughan and Hermetic Philosophy

The Cosmological Fall in Hermes Trismegistus

6. Irenaean Theodicy and Thomas Traherne

The Background

The Fall in Irenaeus

Irenaean Theory in Traherne

Conclusion

7. Conclusion

Notes

Plates

Index