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Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity

Author : Panagiotis G. Pavlos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429803095
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity written by Panagiotis G. Pavlos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith. The chapters are united in their goal to explore transformations that took place in the reception and interaction process between Platonism and Christianity in this period. The contributions in this volume explore the reception of Platonic material in Christian thought, showing that the transmission of cultural content is always mediated, and ought to be studied as a transformative process by way of selection and interpretation. Some chapters also deal with various aspects of the wider discussion on how Platonic, and Hellenic, philosophy and early Christian thought related to each other, examining the differences and common ground between these traditions. Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity offers an insightful and broad ranging study on the subject, which will be of interest to students of both philosophy and theology in the Late Antique period, as well as anyone working on the reception and history of Platonic thought, and the development of Christian thought.

Christian Platonism

Author : Alexander J. B. Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108676472
Total Pages : 875 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Christian Platonism written by Alexander J. B. Hampton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with an intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternatively, it has been considered a compromising influence, conflicting with the faith's revelatory foundations and distorting its inherent message. In both cases the fundamental importance of Platonism, as a force which Christianity defined itself by and against, is clear. Written by an international team of scholars, this landmark volume examines the history of Christian Platonism from antiquity to the present day, covers key concepts, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.

Platonism and Christianity in Late Ancient Cosmology

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004518460
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Platonism and Christianity in Late Ancient Cosmology written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book breaks new ground by examining ideas about the cosmos, its shape, and its origin in late antiquity. Leading international experts discuss key texts and situate them in their historical environment. Les articles innovants de ce volume examinent les idées sur le cosmos, sa forme et son origine dans l'Antiquité tardive. Des spécialistes internationaux de premier plan présentent des éditions inédites de nouveaux fragments, en approfondissant les textes clés, les situant dans leur cadre historique complexe.

Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims

Author : Eva Anagnostou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527850
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims by : Eva Anagnostou

Download or read book Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims written by Eva Anagnostou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume authors working across different disciplines of late antique and medieval thought explore the reception of Platonic and Neoplatonic tenets among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

Philosophy in Late Antiquity

Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415225106
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in Late Antiquity written by Andrew Smith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy in Late Antiquity provides an essential new introduction to the key ideas of the Neoplatonists, which affected approaches to Plato as late as the nineteenth century. Andrew Smith shows how they influenced Christian thought and his approach not only allows us to appreciate these philosophical ideas in their own right, but it also gives us significant insights into the mentality of the age which produced them.

Platonopolis

Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199257582
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Platonopolis by : Dominic J. O'Meara

Download or read book Platonopolis written by Dominic J. O'Meara and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas, and he proposes for the first time a reconstruction of theirpolitical philosophy, their conception of the function, structure, and contents of political science, and its relation to political virtue and to the divinization of soul and state.Among the topics discussed by O'Meara are: philosopher-kings and queens; political goals and levels of reform: law, constitutions, justice, and penology; the political function of religion; and the limits of political science and action. He also explores various reactions to these political ideas in the works of Christian and Islamic writers, in particular Eusebius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Farabi.Filling a major gap in our understanding, Platonopolis will be of substantial interest to scholars and students of ancient philosophy, classicists, and historians of political thought.

Aristotle and Early Christian Thought

Author : Mark Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315520192
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and Early Christian Thought written by Mark Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studies of early Christian thought, ‘philosophy’ is often a synonym for ‘Platonism’, or at most for ‘Platonism and Stoicism’. Nevertheless, it was Aristotle who, from the sixth century AD to the Italian Renaissance, was the dominant Greek voice in Christian, Muslim and Jewish philosophy. Aristotle and Early Christian Thought is the first book in English to give a synoptic account of the slow appropriation of Aristotelian thought in the Christian world from the second to the sixth century. Concentrating on the great theological topics – creation, the soul, the Trinity, and Christology – it makes full use of modern scholarship on the Peripatetic tradition after Aristotle, explaining the significance of Neoplatonism as a mediator of Aristotelian logic. While stressing the fidelity of Christian thinkers to biblical presuppositions which were not shared by the Greek schools, it also describes their attempts to overcome the pagan objections to biblical teachings by a consistent use of Aristotelian principles, and it follows their application of these principles to matters which lay outside the purview of Aristotle himself. This volume offers a valuable study not only for students of Christian theology in its formative years, but also for anyone seeking an introduction to the thought of Aristotle and its developments in Late Antiquity.

Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity

Author : Mark Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135121912X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity written by Mark Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnosticism, Christianity and late antique philosophy are often studied separately; when studied together they are too often conflated. These articles set out to show that we misunderstand all three phenomena if we take either approach. We cannot interpret, or even identify, Christian Gnosticism without Platonic evidence; we may even discover that Gnosticism throws unexpected light on the Platonic imagination. At the same time, if we read writers like Origen simply as Christian Platonists, or bring Christians and philosophers together under the porous umbrella of "monotheism", we ignore fundamental features of both traditions. To grasp what made Christianity distinctive, we must look at the questions asked in the studies here, not merely what Christians appropriated but how it was appropriated. What did the pagan gods mean to a Christian poet of the fifth century? What did Paul quote when he thought he was quoting Greek poetry? What did Socrates mean to the Christians, and can we trust their memories when they appeal to lost fragments of the Presocratics? When pagans accuse the Christians of moral turpitude, do they know more or less about them than we do? What divides Augustine, the disenchanted Platonist, from his Neoplatonic contemporaries? And what God or gods await the Neoplatonist when he dies?

Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World

Author : Kevin Corrigan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004254765
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World by : Kevin Corrigan

Download or read book Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World written by Kevin Corrigan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Turner’s work has been of profound importance for the study of the interaction between Greek philosophy and Gnosticism in late antiquity. This volume contains essays by international scholars on a broad range of topics that deal with Sethian, Valentinian and other early Christian thought, as well as with Platonism and Neoplatonism, and offer a variety of perspectives spanning intellectual history, Greek and Coptic philology, and the study of religions.

Christians and Platonists

Author : Theodore Sabo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443888354
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Christians and Platonists written by Theodore Sabo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christians, Gnostics, and Platonists of late antiquity all shared that era’s dislike of matter and the body. The first part of this book looks at key words like ethos, aiōn, and saeculum. The second part investigates the Neoplatonists, the Platonists of late antiquity. In the writings of Plotinus and Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, the dislike of matter and the body was boldly expressed. The third part shows that Gnosticism was second to none in its insistence that matter and the body were evil. It was elitist, suspicious of the political world, and often filled with an interest in magic and immorality. Simon Magus, Carpocrates, and Valentinus are only a few of the Gnostics who are considered. The last part discovers dislike of matter and the body in the early Christians, although with less consistency to their worldview. It was especially notable in the attempt of Origen and Arius to place God the Son at a lower metaphysical level than God the Father in order to protect God from the evil entity of matter. The desert fathers, the Arians, Ambrose, and Augustine are all included.

Origen Against Plato

Author : Mark J. Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Origen Against Plato written by Mark J. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origen's work contains the antibodies to Platonism as proof that he has suffered and resisted its attacks.

Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429565
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy provide valuable insights into the central role of philosophical ideas in a period when paganism was in decline and Eastern Christians were forging their community identities.

Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World

Author : Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323139
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World written by Anders Klostergaard Petersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of the new Brill series “Ancient Philosophy & Religion” offers analyses of Platonic philosophy and piety, the emergence of a common religio-philosophical discourse in Antiquity, the place of Jesus among ancient philosophers, and responses of pagan philosophers to Christianity from the second century to Late Antiquity.

Plato and Theodoret

Author : Niketas Siniossoglou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521880734
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Plato and Theodoret written by Niketas Siniossoglou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of the late antique Hellenic-Christian conflict regarding the compatability of Platonism and Christianity.

Philosophy in Christian Antiquity

Author : Christopher Stead
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521469555
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in Christian Antiquity written by Christopher Stead and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity began as a little-known Jewish sect, but rose within 300 years to dominate the civilised world. It owed its rise in part to inspired moral leadership, but also to its success in assimilating, criticising and developing the philosophies of the day, which offered rationally approved life-styles and moral directives. Without abandoning their allegiance to their founder and to Holy Scripture, Christians could therefore present their faith as a 'new philosophy'. This book, which is written for non-specialist readers, provides a concise conspectus of the emergence of philosophy among the Greeks; an account of its continuance in early Christian times, and its influence on early Christian thought, especially in formulating the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation; and finally a brief critical assessment of the philosophy of St Augustine - arguably the greatest philosopher of the first millennium.

Evagrius and Gregory

Author : Kevin Corrigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317138856
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Evagrius and Gregory written by Kevin Corrigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa have either been overlooked by philosophers and theologians in modern times, or overshadowed by their prominent friend and brother (respectively), Gregory Nazianzus and Basil the Great. Yet they are major figures in the development of Christian thought in late antiquity and their works express a unique combination of desert and urban spiritualities in the lived and somewhat turbulent experience of an entire age. They also provide a significant link between the great ancient thinkers of the past - Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Clement and others - and the birth and transmission of the early Medieval period - associated with Boethius, Cassian and Augustine. This book makes accessible, to a wide audience, the thought of Evagrius and Gregory on the mind, soul and body, in the context of ancient philosophy/theology and the Cappadocians generally. Corrigan argues that in these two figures we witness the birth of new forms of thought and science. Evagrius and Gregory are no mere receivers of a monolithic pagan and Christian tradition, but innovative, critical interpreters of the range and limits of cognitive psychology, the soul-body relation, reflexive self-knowledge, personal and human identity and the soul’s practical relation to goodness in the context of human experience and divine self-disclosure. This book provides a critical evaluation of their thought on these major issues and argues that in Evagrius and Gregory we see the important integration of many different concerns that later Christian thought was not always able to balance including: mysticism, asceticism, cognitive science, philosophy, and theology.

Neoplatonism and Christian Thought

Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438415117
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism and Christian Thought written by Dominic J. O'Meara and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1981-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the relationships between two of the most vital currents in Western thought are examined by a group of nineteen internationally known specialists in a variety of disciplines—classics, patristics, philosophy, theology, history of ideas, and literature. The contributing scholars discuss Neoplatonic theories about God, creation, man, and salvation, in relation to the ways in which they were adopted, adapted, or rejected by major Christian thinkers of five periods: Patristic, Later Greek and Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern. Contributors include G.-H. Allard, A. Hilary Armstrong, Elizabeth Bieman, Linos Benakis, Henry Blumenthal, Mary T. Clark, Norris Clarke, John Dillon, Cornelio Fabro, John N. Findlay, Maurice de Gandillac, Edward P. Mahoney, Bernard McGinn, Dominic J. O'Meara, John J. O'Meara, Jean Pépin, Mary Carman Rose, Henri-Dominique Saffrey, Charles B. Schmitt, and Gérard Verbeke.