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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 thought. Moreover, the principal impulse behind his engagement with that philosophy is traced to the more immediate context of the English Unitarian±Trinitarian controversy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book re-establishes Coleridge as a philosopher of religion and as a vital source for contemporary theological re¯ection.  \ndouglas hedley was educated at the universities of Oxford and Munich. He is a fellow of Clare College and lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge in the Faculty of Divinity.  \nCOLERIDGE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION  \nAids to Re¯ection and the Mirror of the Spirit  \nDOUGLAS HEDLEY  \nUniversity of Cambridge  \n􀀁􀀂􀀃􀀄􀀅􀀆􀀇􀀈􀀉 􀀃􀀋 􀀌􀀇􀀈 􀀁􀀍􀀈􀀆􀀆 􀀆􀀋􀀎􀀉􀀅􀀏􀀐􀀌􀀈 􀀑􀀒 􀀌􀀇􀀈 􀀂􀀎􀀅􀀓􀀈􀀍􀀆􀀅􀀌􀀋 􀀑􀀒 􀀏􀀐􀀔􀀃􀀍􀀅􀀉􀀕􀀈 The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom  \n􀀏􀀐􀀔􀀃􀀍􀀅􀀉􀀕􀀈 􀀂􀀎􀀅􀀓􀀈􀀍􀀆􀀅􀀌􀀋 􀀁􀀍􀀈􀀆􀀆  \nThe Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK  \n40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA  \n477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain  \nDock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa  \n[http://www.cambridge.org](http://www.cambridge.org)[ ](http://www.cambridge.org)© Cambridge University Press 2004 First published in printed format 2000  \nISBN 0-511-03405-9 eBook (Adobe Reader) ISBN 0-521-77035-1 hardback  \nMind and understanding is, as it were, a diaphanous and crystaline globe, or a kind of notional world, which hath some re¯ex image, and correspondent ray, or representation in it, to whatsoever is in the true and real world of being.  \n(Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, vol. ii. p. 517)  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements page ix List of abbreviations xi  \nNotes on the text xiii  \nPrologue: explaining Coleridge's explanation 1  \n1 The true philosopher is the lover of God 18  \nA spiritual philosophy 21  \nThe revival of natural theology 29  \nPlatonism 33  \nThe Platonic Trinity 36  \nGerman Idealism and the Platonic Tradition 40  \nPaley, Locke and Socinianism 45  \nPriestley, Unitarianism and Platonic idealism 49  \nIdentity and difference: henology or ontology? 59  \nSupreme being and self-consciousness 65  \n`i am who i am ' 75  \n2 Inner word: re¯ection as meditation 88  \nAphorism 89  \nMeditation and awakening: spiritual exercises 93  \nRe¯ection, recollection and restlessness 102  \nThe soul as the mirror of the divine 109  \nThe ascent of the mind and the inner word 116  \nThe communication of truth and biblical symbols 127  \nThe philosophic and the beloved apostle 136  \nRe¯ection and rational discrimination 145  \n3 The image of God: re¯ection as imitating the divine spirit 152  \nPrudence 154  \nviii Contents  \nSensibility 157  \nThe two worlds 161  \n`Know Thyself!' 168  \nSpiritual aids 180  \nAutonomy and the Euthyphro dilemma 188  \n4 God is truth: the faculty of re¯ection or human  \nUnderstanding in relation to the divine Reason 192  \nThe faith of science 202  \nReason and re¯ection 214  \nNotional speculation 222  \n5 The great instauration: re¯ection as the renewal of the soul 228  \nRobert Leighton and dying to self 243  \nOriginal sin 247  \nBaptism and spiritual renewal 262  \n6 The vision of God: re¯ection culture, and the seed ofa  \ndeiform nature 265  \nHume, Gibbon and the basis of `Enlightenment' 266  \nColeridge's philosophical mysticism 279  \nEpilogue: the candle of the Lord and Coleridge's legacy 286  \nColeridge and Anglo-Saxon Victorian ","cbCaiul3tJ9HqtOv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiul3tJ9HqtOv","pdf",1535501,346,"English","# Acknowledgements\n# List of abbreviations\n# Notes on the text\n# Prologue: explaining Coleridge's explanation\n# The true philosopher is the lover of God\n## A spiritual philosophy\n## The revival of natural theology\n## Platonism\n## The Platonic Trinity\n## German Idealism and the Platonic Tradition\n## Paley, Locke and Socinianism\n## Priestley, Unitarianism and Platonic idealism\n## Identity and difference: henology or ontology?\n## Supreme being and self-consciousness\n## i am who i am\n# Inner word: reflection as meditation\n## Aphorism\n## Meditation and awakening: spiritual exercises\n## Reflection, recollection and restlessness\n## The soul as the mirror of the divine\n## The ascent of the mind and the inner word\n## The communication of truth and biblical symbols\n## The philosophic and the beloved apostle\n## Reflection and rational discrimination\n# The image of God: reflection as imitating the divine spirit\n## Prudence\n## Sensibility\n## The two worlds\n## Know Thyself!\n## Spiritual aids\n## Autonomy and the Euthyphro dilemma\n# God is truth: the faculty of reflection or human Understanding in relation to the divine Reason\n## The faith of science\n## Reason and reflection\n## Notional speculation\n# The great instauration: reflection as the renewal of the soul\n## Robert Leighton and dying to self\n## Original sin\n## Baptism and spiritual renewal\n# The vision of God: reflection culture, and the seed of a deiform nature\n## Hume, Gibbon and the basis of Enlightenment\n## Coleridge's philosophical mysticism\n# Epilogue: the candle of the Lord and Coleridge's legacy\n## Coleridge and Anglo-Saxon Victorian idealism\n## Coleridge and twentieth-century religious thought\n# Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"Why does the book treat Coleridge’s relation to German contemporaries as a difficult problem?\",\"answer\":\"It frames that relationship as the toughest issue in assessing Coleridge’s standing as a thinker, since earlier evaluations tended to describe it in dismissive terms. 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