Shining Human Creature (Traherne)

Author: Thomas Traherne

Publisher: Davenant Press

ISBN: 9781949716160

Binding: paperback

Section: Christianity-General

In the wake of the Reformation, Christians all over continental Europe asked a question posed by all great Christian thinkers before them: what does it mean for man to live as one restored in Christ? Into this conversation comes Thomas Traherne—clergyman, poet, and mystic—to cast a vision of the "shining human creature," the truly virtuous man, and the God who made and loves him. His writing demonstrates how philosophy can befriend poetics, how the intellect can be at home with the imagination of the heart, and how virtue ethics can be transposed into a truly Christian key.