Platonism and Christian thought in late antiquity /

Platonism and Christian thought in late antiquity / edited by Panagiotis G. Pavlos, Lars Fredrik Janby, Eyj��lfur Kjalar Emilsson, and Torstein Theodor Tollefsen. - xv, 315 p. ; 24 cm. - Studies in philosophy and theology in late antiquity. . - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: The agreement of Christianity and Platonic philosophy from Justin Martyr to Eusebius / S��bastien Morlet -- Augustine and the "prophecy" of Plato, Tim 29c3 / Christina Hoenig -- Porphyry's daemons as a threat for the Christians / Christine Hecht -- Patristic reflections on formless matter / Enrico Moro -- Plotinus' doctrine of badness as matter in Ennead I.8 [51] / Eyj��lfur Kjalar Emilsson -- Proclus, Philoponus, and Maximus : the paradigm of the world and temporal beginning / Torstein Theodor Tollefsen -- Christ and Pythagoras : Augustine's early philosophy of number / Lars Fredrik Janby -- The impact of the 'O������u�������� on the divine ideas / Daniel J. Tolan -- Theurgy in Dionysius the Areopagite / Panagiotis G. Pavlos -- On the meaning of hierarchy in Dionysius the Areopagite / Dimitrios A. Vasilakis -- The doctrine of immanent realism in Maximus the Confessor / Sebastian Mateiescu -- That and how perich��r��sis differs from participation : the case of Maximus the Confessor / Jordan Daniel Wood -- Apophaticism in the search for knowledge : love as a key difference in Neoplatonic and Christian epistemology / E. Brown Dewhurst -- The origin of passions in Neoplatonic and early Christian thought : Porphyry of Tyre and Evagrius Ponticus / Adrian Pirtea -- Augustine on eudaimonia as life project and object of desire / Tomas Ekenberg.

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2019009051


Platonists.
Christian philosophy--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

B517 / .P55 2019

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