Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity (Paperback, 1)

AcknowledgementsList of contributorsList of abbreviationsIntroductionLARS FREDRIK JANBY, EYJOLFUR KJALAR EMILSSON, TORSTEIN THEODOR TOLLEFSEN AND PANAGIOTIS G. PAVLOSPART I: Methodologies1 The Agreement of Christianity and Platonic Philosophy from Justin Martyr to EusebiusSEBASTIEN MORLET2 Augustine and the "Prophecy" of Plato, Tim. 29c3CHRISTINA HOENIG3 Porphyry’s Daemons as a Threat for the ChristiansCHRISTINE HECHTPART II: Cosmology4 Patristic Reflections on Formless MatterENRICO MORO5 Plotinus’ Doctrine of Badness as Matter in Ennead I.8. [51]EYJOLFUR KJALAR EMILSSON6 Proclus, Philoponus, and Maximus: The Paradigm of the World and Temporal BeginningTORSTEIN THEODOR TOLLEFSENPART III: Metaphysics7 Christ and Pythagoras: Augustine’s Early Philosophy of NumberLARS FREDRIK JANBY8 The Impact of ¿μ¿¿¿s¿¿¿ on the Divine IdeasDANIEL J. TOLAN9 Theurgy in Dionysius the AreopagitePANAGIOTIS G. PAVLOS10 On the Meaning of Hierarchy in Dionysius the AreopagiteDIMITRIOS A. VASILAKIS11 The Doctrine of Immanent Realism in Maximus the ConfessorSEBASTIAN MATEIESCU12 That and How Perichoresis Differs from Participation: The Case of Maximus the ConfessorJORDAN DANIEL WOODPART IV: Ethics13 Apophaticism in the Search for Knowledge: Love as a Key Difference in Neoplatonic and Christian EpistemologyE. BROWN DEWHURST14 The Origin of Passions in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought: Porphyry of Tyre and Evagrius PonticusADRIAN PIRTEA15 Augustine on Eudaimonia as Life Project and Object of DesireTOMAS EKENBERGIndexes