Northrop Frye's “Christianity and Philosophies of History”

Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsNorthrop Frye, and Robert D. Denham
JournalUniversity of Toronto Quarterly
Volume85
Issue2
Pagination99-103
ISSN0042-0247
URLhttp://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utq.85.2.05
DOI10.3138/utq.85.2.05
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Abstract

In a recently discovered document, Northrop Frye reflects on the metaphors of rise and decline in the philosophies of history of St. Augustine, Edward Gibbon, Oswald Spengler, and Arnold Toynbee, and he raises the possibility of their being a Christian philosophy of history.