The "Supposed Fact" of Christ: Agency and Faith in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean
This article reconsiders Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean in light of historical conversations around conversion and nineteenth-century British epistemologies. We argue that Marius participates in the project of imagining epistemic alternatives to the empiricism and positivism that shaped ninetee...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| Dans: |
Christianity & literature
Année: 2024, Volume: 73, Numéro: 4, Pages: 490-506 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | CB Spiritualité chrétienne CD Christianisme et culture KAH Époque moderne KBF Îles britanniques NBF Christologie VB Herméneutique; philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Agency
B Epistemology B aestheticism B Marius the Epicurean B Conversion B Walter Pater |
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| Résumé: | This article reconsiders Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean in light of historical conversations around conversion and nineteenth-century British epistemologies. We argue that Marius participates in the project of imagining epistemic alternatives to the empiricism and positivism that shaped nineteenth-century religious discourse. Through Marius, Pater imagines an understanding of faith in which aesthetic experience supplements imperfect historical knowledge, giving probable grounds for belief. Within this epistemology, Pater constructs a responsive model of human agency, where the convert is transformed gradually through the community, circumstance, and fortuitous events. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2024.a952554 |
