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"The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo- Christian traditions. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key concept in the history of Western thought, providing a rigorous and accessible account of participation from antiquity to the modern era"--
List of contents
Foreword John M. Dillon; Introduction Douglas Hedley and Daniel J. Tolan; 1. The lord is one Margaret Barker; 2. The place and scope of participation in the divine in the thought of Plato Kevin Corrigan; 3. Origen on participation Daniel J. Tolan; 4. Forms, intellects and angels: Plotinus on participation Stephen Clark; 5. Participation in the divine in Gregory of Nyssa Ilaria Ramelli; 6. Augustine's 'illumination' theory as the natural participation of the human mind: correcting Bonaventure via Plotinus and Marius Victorinus Sarah Byers; 7. Participation: the principle of cosmic unification in the Athenian School of Platonism Sarah Klitenic Wear; 8. St. Maximus the confessor on participation Torstein Tollefsen; 9. Participation in medieval Platonism Stephen Gersh; 10. Participation as god's indwelling: Aquinas Wayne Hankey¿; 11. Some late medieval discussions of participation in the divine Richard Cross; 12. Music, temperance, and participation in Marsilio Ficino Michael J. B. Allen¿; 13. Richard hooker's metaphysics of divine participation Torrance Kirby; 14. Cudworth on causality, and substantial forms: towards a new theory of causation Adrian Mihai; 15. The transcendence of holiness: divine goodness and human freedom in Henry more's critique of Baruch de Spinoza Christian Hengstermann; 16. Participation in the Romantic Period Douglas Hedley; 17. Participation revived and revisited: the speculative metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead Jacob Sherman
About the author
Douglas Hedley is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Clare College, and Director of The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism. He is the author of several books, most recently The Iconic Imagination (2016).Daniel J. Tolan is a Fellow of The Polansky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Summary
The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key concept in the history of Western thought, providing a rigorous and accessible account of participation from antiquity to the modern era.
