Platonism and Christian thought in late antiquity. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Panagiotis G. Pavlos, Lars Fredrik Janby, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, and Torstein Theodor Tollefsen.
• Editors: Pavlos, Panagiotis G; Janby, Lars Fredrik; Tollefsen, Torstein, 1953-; Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
• Contents: Acknowledgements List of contributors List of abbreviations Introduction LARS FREDRIK JANBY, EYJÓLFUR KJALAR EMILSSON, TORSTEIN THEODOR TOLLEFSEN AND PANAGIOTIS G. PAVLOS PART I: Methodologies 1 The Agreement of Christianity and Platonic Philosophy from Justin Martyr to Eusebius SÉBASTIEN MORLET 2 Augustine and the "Prophecy" of Plato, Tim . 29c3 CHRISTINA HOENIG 3 Porphyry’s Daemons as a Threat for the Christians CHRISTINE HECHT PART II: Cosmology 4 Patristic Reflections on Formless Matter ENRICO MORO 5 Plotinus’ Doctrine of Badness as Matter in Ennead I.8. [51] EYJÓLFUR KJALAR EMILSSON 6 Proclus, Philoponus, and Maximus: The Paradigm of the World and Temporal Beginning TORSTEIN THEODOR TOLLEFSEN PART III: Metaphysics 7 Christ and Pythagoras: Augustine’s Early Philosophy of Number LARS FREDRIK JANBY 8 The Impact of Ὁμοούσιον on the Divine Ideas DANIEL J. TOLAN 9 Theurgy in Dionysius the Areopagite PANAGIOTIS G. PAVLOS 10 On the Meaning of Hierarchy in Dionysius the Areopagite DIMITRIOS A. VASILAKIS 11 The Doctrine of Immanent Realism in Maximus the Confessor SEBASTIAN MATEIESCU 12 That and How Perichōrēsis Differs from Participation: The Case of Maximus the Confessor JORDAN DANIEL WOOD PART IV: Ethics 13 Apophaticism in the Search for Knowledge: Love as a Key Difference in Neoplatonic and Christian Epistemology E. BROWN DEWHURST 14 The Origin of Passions in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought: Porphyry of Tyre and Evagrius Ponticus ADRIAN PIRTEA 15 Augustine on Eudaimonia as Life Project and Object of Desire TOMAS EKENBERG Indexes
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 184; Platonists; Christian philosophy -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical; HISTORY / Ancient / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication; Platonists; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429440465; 0429440464; 9780429803109; 0429803109; 9780429803093; 0429803095; 9780429803086; 0429803087
• Related ISBNs: 9781138340954
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 11, 2019)
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