Coleridge's Assertion of Religion

by Barbeau, Jeffrey W.

• ISBN13: 9789042917873
• ISBN10: 9042917873
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-30
• Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers

Summary

Alternately titled the Assertion of Religion, the great work, Logosophia, magnum opus, and the Opus Maximum, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's philosophical assertion of religion was often regarded as the work that would determine his permanent contribution to the history of ideas. Despite endless preparatory studies, however, Coleridge's plan to develop a unified system, drawing from philosophy, literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences, remained incomplete at his death. Coleridge's Assertion of Religion contains the first collection of original scholarship on the newly published Opus Maximum. While the language of the Opus Maximum is often complex and fragmentary, the essays in this volume open new avenues for future discussion of pivotal themes in Coleridge's writings, including careful analysis of Coleridge's conception of God and the Trinity, the human will, his relationship to Neoplatonism, and his unique defense of the human self through the connection between a mother and a child. The volume thereby contributes to the ongoing assessment of Coleridge's contribution to nineteenth-century Romanticism and his place in the history of ideas.

Table of Contents

The quest for system : an introduction to Coleridge's lifelong project	p. 1
Harmony and mutual implication in the Opus maximum	p. 33
On the divine ideas : the systematic theology of Samuel Taylor Coleridge	p. 53
Reading "will" in Coleridge's Opus maximum : the rhetoric of transition and repetition	p. 73
"With his garland and his singing robes about him" : the persistence of the literary in the Opus maximum	p. 97
Duty and power : conflicts of the will in Coleridge's creation of the self	p. 121
Repeating the act of the infinite in the finite : theological anthropology in Coleridge's Opus maximum	p. 145
Science and the depersonalization of the divine : pantheism, unitarianism, and the limits of natural theology	p. 163
"That I may be here" : human persons and divine personeity in the Opus maximum	p. 187
Philosophia trinitatis : Coleridge, pantheism, and a Christian cabbala	p. 213
Individuality, unity, and distinction : Plotinian concepts in the Opus maximum	p. 233
The logosophia : how the logos acts as unifying principle in Coleridge's thought	p. 255
Coleridge's Magnum opus and his Opus maximum	p. 281
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