Physics as Spiritual Exercise: T.S. Eliot and Natural Contemplation

This essay reads T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets as a dramatization of the Christian spiritual practice of natural contemplation, which aims at an understanding of the created world in its cycles of generation and decay in order to lead the soul to union with God. This focus allows for a better acc...

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Main Author: Burdge, Alexander (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2020]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 69, Issue: 4, Pages: 568-586
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
Further subjects:B Four Quartets
B Spiritual Exercise
B theoria physike
B T. S. Eliot
B contemplation of nature
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