The Human Spirit
eBook - PDF

The Human Spirit

Beginnings from Genesis to Science

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Human Spirit

Beginnings from Genesis to Science

About this book

In this volume, Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle probes significant concepts of the human spirit in Western religious culture across more than two millennia, from the book of Genesis to early modern science.

The Human Spirit treats significant interpretations of human nature as religious in political, philosophical, and physical aspects by tracing its historical subject through the Priestly tradition of the Hebrew Bible and the writings of the apostle Paul among the Corinthians, the innovative theologians Augustine and Aquinas, the reformatory theologian Calvin, and the natural philosopher and physician William Harvey. Boyle analyzes the particular experiences and notions of these influential authors while she contextualizes them in community. She shows how they shared a conviction, although distinctly understood, of the human spirit as endowed by or designed by a divine source of everything animate.

An original and erudite work that utilizes a rich and varied array of primary source material, this volume will be of interest to intellectual and cultural historians of religion, philosophy, literature, and medicine.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Genesis
  7. Notes to Chapter 1
  8. Chapter 2: Paul
  9. Notes to Chapter 2
  10. Chapter 3: Augustine
  11. Notes to Chapter 3
  12. Chapter 4: Aquinas
  13. Notes to Chapter 4
  14. Chapter 5: Calvin
  15. Notes to Chapter 5
  16. Chapter 6: Science
  17. Notes to Chapter 6
  18. Notes
  19. Index