Douglas Hedley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1673509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Hedley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Hedley |
| SIGNATURE | HEDLEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3886-4114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Schleiermacher’s Plato
Participation in the Divine
The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. It is how thinkers throughout history have justified existence itself, explaining temporal being vis-à-vis God. Yet in the wake of secularisation and the widespread phenomenon of disenchantment, this once ubiquitous and coveted notion has fallen into desuetude. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key co…
The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
Christianity has understood the environment as a gift to nurture and steward, a book of divine revelation disclosing the divine mind, a wild garden in need of cultivation and betterment, and as a resource for the creation of a new Eden. This Cambridge Companion details how Christianity, one of the world's most important religions, has shaped one of the existential issues of our age, the environment. Engaging with contemporary issues, including ge…
Revisioning Cambridge Platonism
Censuring the Teutonic Philosopher?
This essay examines Henry More’s engagement with Jacob Böhme and compares the sympathetic critique of Böhme with More’s much more negative evaluation of Spinoza. More directs his criticism of Böhme at the similarities between Spinoza and Böhme: their materialism and confusion of God and world. The present essay suggests, however, that the perception of shared Platonism informs More’s more favourable approach to the Silesian. The problem of what “…
Gods and giants
The Cambridge Platonists are modern thinkers and the context of seventeenth-century Cambridge science is an inalienable and decisive part of their thought. Cudworth’s interest in ancient theology, however, seems to conflict with the progressive aspect of his philosophy. The problem of the nature, however, of this ‘Platonism’ is unavoidable. Even in his complex and recondite ancient theology Cudworth is motivated by philosophical considerations, a…
Response to My Interlocutors
Bild, Bildung and the ‘romance of the soul’
In this article, the Bild or image of the sculptor used by Plotinus and adapted by his Christian follower Meister Eckhart forms the basis of a reflection on the religious or otherworldly dimension in ethics (as opposed to a reductionist or functionalist conception of ethics with its focus on human happiness in the sense of worldly success) and on the relationship of esthetics, morality, and religion. The image of the sculptor who chips away at hi…
Charles Taylor, Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age
God and the Habits of Language
Robin Stockitt, Imagination and the Playfulness of God
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition
Göttliche Freiheit
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion
An international team of over 100 leading scholars has been brought together to provide authoritative exposition of how history s most important philosophical thinkers from antiquity to the present day- have sought to analyse the concepts and tenets central to Western religious belief, especially Christianity. Volume 4 comprises an introduction, presenting an overview of Nineteenth-Century philosophy of religion, and a series of essays on Ninetee…
Living forms of the imagination
Comments on Cottingham ‘Plato’s Sun and Descartes’s Stove’
This chapter comments on John Cottingham’s chapter on Platonism in Rene Descartes’ cosmology, metaphysics, and moral theory. It explains the concept of implicit Platonism as consisting in certain Platonic or Neoplatonic notions, such as the notion of Ideas or Archetypes in the mind of God, and suggests that there is nothing Platonic in Descartes’ philosophy beyond such widely accepted ideas. It also questions Cottingham’s assumption that Platonis…
Platonism at the Origins of Modernity
The Cambridge History of Christianity
This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. Part I analyses the responses of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to the intellectual and social challenges presented by European modernity. It gives attention to the explosion of new voluntary forms of Christianity and the expanding role of women in religious life. Part II surveys the diverse and complex relationships between …
Should Divinity Overcome Metaphysics? Reflections on John Milbank's Theology beyond Secular Reason and Confessions of a Cambridge Platonist
Thomas M. Schmidt Anerkennung und Absolute Religion
Thomas M. Schmidt Anerkennung und Absolute Religion: Formierung der Gesellschaftstheorie und Genese der Spekulativen Religionsphilosophie in Hegel's Frühschriften. (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzbook, 1997). - Volume 35 Issue 2
"Coleridge's Intellectual Intuition, the Vision of God, and the Walled Garden of "Kubla Khan
Coleridge's Intellectual Intuition, the Vision of God, and the Walled Garden of "Kubla Khan" Douglas Hedley In his seminal work of 1917 Das Heilige Rudolph Otto quotes a number of passages as instances of the "Numinose." Alongside those quotations from more conventional mystics, Plotinus, and Augustine, Otto refers to Coleridge's "savage place" in Kubla Khan. 1 It is also pertinent that, when trying to define Romanticism, C. S. Lewis appeals to t…
Pantheism, Trinitarian Theism and the Idea of Unity
Modern analytic philosophy of religion has become increasingly interested in the dogmatic substances of Christian theology. I argue that the doctrine of the Trinity provides an instance of the importance of dogmatic formulation for an appreciation of the philosophical aspect of the Christian concept of God. The starting point of my discussion is the recent defence of pantheism by Michael Levine, and his discussion of Neoplatonist and German Ideal…
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Pantheism, Trinitarian Theism and the Idea of Unity
Modern analytic philosophy of religion has become increasingly interested in the dogmatic substances of Christian theology. I argue that the doctrine of the Trinity provides an instance of the importance of dogmatic formulation for an appreciation of the philosophical aspect of the Christian concept of God. The starting point of my discussion is the recent defence of pantheism by Michael Levine, and his discussion of Neoplatonist and German Ideal…
"Coleridge's Intellectual Intuition, the Vision of God, and the Walled Garden of "Kubla Khan
Coleridge's Intellectual Intuition, the Vision of God, and the Walled Garden of "Kubla Khan" Douglas Hedley In his seminal work of 1917 Das Heilige Rudolph Otto quotes a number of passages as instances of the "Numinose." Alongside those quotations from more conventional mystics, Plotinus, and Augustine, Otto refers to Coleridge's "savage place" in Kubla Khan. 1 It is also pertinent that, when trying to define Romanticism, C. S. Lewis appeals to t…
Thomas M. Schmidt Anerkennung und Absolute Religion
Thomas M. Schmidt Anerkennung und Absolute Religion: Formierung der Gesellschaftstheorie und Genese der Spekulativen Religionsphilosophie in Hegel's Frühschriften. (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzbook, 1997). - Volume 35 Issue 2
Should Divinity Overcome Metaphysics? Reflections on John Milbank's Theology beyond Secular Reason and Confessions of a Cambridge Platonist
The Cambridge History of Christianity
This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. Part I analyses the responses of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to the intellectual and social challenges presented by European modernity. It gives attention to the explosion of new voluntary forms of Christianity and the expanding role of women in religious life. Part II surveys the diverse and complex relationships between …
Comments on Cottingham ‘Plato’s Sun and Descartes’s Stove’
This chapter comments on John Cottingham’s chapter on Platonism in Rene Descartes’ cosmology, metaphysics, and moral theory. It explains the concept of implicit Platonism as consisting in certain Platonic or Neoplatonic notions, such as the notion of Ideas or Archetypes in the mind of God, and suggests that there is nothing Platonic in Descartes’ philosophy beyond such widely accepted ideas. It also questions Cottingham’s assumption that Platonis…
Platonism at the Origins of Modernity
Living forms of the imagination
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion
An international team of over 100 leading scholars has been brought together to provide authoritative exposition of how history s most important philosophical thinkers from antiquity to the present day- have sought to analyse the concepts and tenets central to Western religious belief, especially Christianity. Volume 4 comprises an introduction, presenting an overview of Nineteenth-Century philosophy of religion, and a series of essays on Ninetee…
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition
Göttliche Freiheit
Robin Stockitt, Imagination and the Playfulness of God
God and the Habits of Language
Charles Taylor, Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age
Gods and giants
The Cambridge Platonists are modern thinkers and the context of seventeenth-century Cambridge science is an inalienable and decisive part of their thought. Cudworth’s interest in ancient theology, however, seems to conflict with the progressive aspect of his philosophy. The problem of the nature, however, of this ‘Platonism’ is unavoidable. Even in his complex and recondite ancient theology Cudworth is motivated by philosophical considerations, a…
Response to My Interlocutors
Bild, Bildung and the ‘romance of the soul’
In this article, the Bild or image of the sculptor used by Plotinus and adapted by his Christian follower Meister Eckhart forms the basis of a reflection on the religious or otherworldly dimension in ethics (as opposed to a reductionist or functionalist conception of ethics with its focus on human happiness in the sense of worldly success) and on the relationship of esthetics, morality, and religion. The image of the sculptor who chips away at hi…
Censuring the Teutonic Philosopher?
This essay examines Henry More’s engagement with Jacob Böhme and compares the sympathetic critique of Böhme with More’s much more negative evaluation of Spinoza. More directs his criticism of Böhme at the similarities between Spinoza and Böhme: their materialism and confusion of God and world. The present essay suggests, however, that the perception of shared Platonism informs More’s more favourable approach to the Silesian. The problem of what “…
Revisioning Cambridge Platonism
The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
Christianity has understood the environment as a gift to nurture and steward, a book of divine revelation disclosing the divine mind, a wild garden in need of cultivation and betterment, and as a resource for the creation of a new Eden. This Cambridge Companion details how Christianity, one of the world's most important religions, has shaped one of the existential issues of our age, the environment. Engaging with contemporary issues, including ge…
Participation in the Divine
The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. It is how thinkers throughout history have justified existence itself, explaining temporal being vis-à-vis God. Yet in the wake of secularisation and the widespread phenomenon of disenchantment, this once ubiquitous and coveted notion has fallen into desuetude. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key co…
Schleiermacher’s Plato
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