Platonism and Christian thought in late antiquity
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Platonism and Christian thought in late antiquity
(Studies in philosophy and theology in late antiquity)
Routledge, 2021
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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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction LARS FREDRIK JANBY, EYJOLFUR 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, SEBASTIEN 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], EYJOLFUR 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 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 Perichoresis 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
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