Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion: Aids to Reflection and the Mirror of the Spirit

By Douglas Hedley

Book Overview

Coleridge's relation to his German contemporaries constitutes the toughest problem in assessing his standing as a thinker. For the last half-century this relationship has been described, ultimately, as parasitic. As a result, Coleridge's contribution to religious thought has been seen primarily in terms of his poetic genius. This book revives and deepens the evaluation of Coleridge as a philosophical theologian in his own right. Coleridge had a critical and creative relation to, and kinship with, German Idealism. Moreover, the principal impulse behind his engagement with that philosophy is traced to the more immediate context of English Unitarian-Trinitarian controversy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book re-establishes Coleridge as a philosopher of religion and as a vital source for contemporary theological reflection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521093236
• ISBN13: 9780521093231
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"