Hellenic and Christian Studies

Contents: Introduction; Some advantages of polytheism; Iamblichus and Egypt; The negative theology of nous in later Neoplatonism; The divine enhancement of earthly beauties: the Hellenic and Platonic tradition; The hidden and the open in Hellenic thought; Platonic mirrors; Negative theology, myth an...

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Author:Arthur Hilary Armstrong
Published: Variorum, Aldershot, 1990
Series:Collected Studies Series
Volume:324
Notes:15 études.
Total Pages:334
Format:Book
Topic:- Biography > Relations and Sources > Platonism - Neo-platonism > Plotinus > Plotinus
Status:Active
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Summary:Contents: Introduction; Some advantages of polytheism; Iamblichus and Egypt; The negative theology of nous in later Neoplatonism; The divine enhancement of earthly beauties: the Hellenic and Platonic tradition; The hidden and the open in Hellenic thought; Platonic mirrors; Negative theology, myth and incarnation; The self-definition of Christianity in relation to Later Platonism; Pagan and Christian traditionalism in the first three centuries A.D.; Philosophy, theology and interpretation: the interpretation of interpreters; Two views of freedom: a Christian objection in Plotinus, Enn.VI 8.(39)7,11-15?; Dualism, Platonic, Gnostic and Christian; The Way and the Ways: religious tolerance and intolerance in the fourth century; Itineraries in Late Antiquity; On not knowing too much about God; Index.

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