Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Dr Mark Edwards is University Lecturer in Patristics! and Tutor in Theology! Christ Church! University of Oxford! UK Zusammenfassung 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? And what God or gods await the Neoplatonist when he dies? Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Part I Christians and Pagans in Dispute: Quoting Aratus: Acts 17.28; Some early Christian immoralities; Justin's logos and the word of God; Satire and verisimilitude: Christianity in Lucian's Peregrinus; Xenophanes Christianus?; Pagan and Christian monotheism in the age of Constantine; Notes on the date and venue of the Oration to the Saints; Dracontius the African and the fate of Rome. Part II Gnostic Thought and its Milieu: Gnostics and Valentians in the church fathers; Neglected texts in the study of Gnosticism; Pauline Platonism: the myth of Valentinus; The tale of Cupid and Psyche; Porphyry's Cave of the Nymphs and the Gnostic controversy. Part III Christianity and the Platonic Tradition: Socrates and the early Church' Origen's Platonism: questions and caveats; Ammonius! teacher of Origen; Birth! death and divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus; Porphyry and the intelligible triad; The figure of love in Augustine and in Proclus the neoplatonist; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Mark Edwards, Mark Edwards
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2012
• EAN: 9781409448228
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-4822-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, RELIGION / Gnosticism, Christian Churches & denominations, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Gnosticism