Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Montaigne's Gods / A. Frigo (ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES D'HISTOIRE DES IDÉES). - In: Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period / [a cura di] A. Frigo. - [s.l] : Springer, 2020. - ISBN 9783030400163. - pp. 15-32 [10.1007/978-3-030-40017-0_2]
Abstract:
According to Montaigne, ‘we cannot condignly conceive’ the nature and actions of God ‘if we are able to conceive them at
all. To imagine them condignly, we must imagine them unimaginable, unutterable, incomprehensible’. These criticisms,
directed at Raymond of Sebond, lead implicitly to the promotion of a radically negative theology. Yet, even if ‘human reason
goes astray […] when she concerns herself with matters divine’, it is still possible to elaborate a discourse on God which
speaks ‘condignly’ of His nature as beyond our power to comprehend. Moreover, it is in the literature of pagan antiquity that
Montaigne finds the elements of this more ‘religious’ theology. This chapter examines Montaigne’s annotations on Lilio
Gregorio Giraldi’s treatise, De deis gentium varia et multiplex historia (‘The Varied and Manifold History of the Pagan
Gods’, 1548), as well as the comparison between Christian and pagan theology sketched out in the Essais.
Tipologia IRIS:
03 - Contributo in volume
Elenco autori:
A. Frigo
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Titolo del libro:
Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period