Author: Pier Franco Beatrice
Publisher: Studies in Platonism, Neoplato
ISBN: 9789004680067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides a rediscovery of one of the most influential philosophical and religious works of Late Antiquity.
The Philosophy of the Few Against the Christians
Author: Pier Franco Beatrice
Publisher: Studies in Platonism, Neoplato
ISBN: 9789004680067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides a rediscovery of one of the most influential philosophical and religious works of Late Antiquity.
Publisher: Studies in Platonism, Neoplato
ISBN: 9789004680067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides a rediscovery of one of the most influential philosophical and religious works of Late Antiquity.
The Philosophy of the Few against the Christians
Author: Pier Franco Beatrice
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004680071
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
This book gives us a new perspective on the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles by Porphyry of Tyre (ca. 232/305 CE), demonstrating that much of what we thought we knew about this work and its fragments is mistaken. Here, for the first time, the attempt is made at reconstructing the original text by following the vicissitudes of its reception and transmission from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to modern scholarship. The extensive and painstaking study of the surviving fragments leads to the radically innovative conclusion that this encyclopedic treatise, written by Porphyry in the last decades of the 3rd century CE, consisted of fifteen books organized in various sections. After an initial discussion of the nature of theurgy and of its subordinate role with respect to philosophy, Porphyry describes the entire history of Greek philosophy from Homer up to his own teacher Plotinus, to then go on to present “introductions” to the seven encyclical disciplines whose study is required for the comprehension of theosophy, that is, the esoteric speculation on the three parts of philosophy: anthropology-ethics, physics, and metaphysics-theology. By harmonizing the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and the Chaldean Oracles, Porphyry intends to present the complete and definitive philosophic system, with the aim of showing the universal way for the liberation of the souls of initiates and of contextually fighting the final battle of the Greco-Roman civilization against Christianity.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004680071
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
This book gives us a new perspective on the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles by Porphyry of Tyre (ca. 232/305 CE), demonstrating that much of what we thought we knew about this work and its fragments is mistaken. Here, for the first time, the attempt is made at reconstructing the original text by following the vicissitudes of its reception and transmission from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to modern scholarship. The extensive and painstaking study of the surviving fragments leads to the radically innovative conclusion that this encyclopedic treatise, written by Porphyry in the last decades of the 3rd century CE, consisted of fifteen books organized in various sections. After an initial discussion of the nature of theurgy and of its subordinate role with respect to philosophy, Porphyry describes the entire history of Greek philosophy from Homer up to his own teacher Plotinus, to then go on to present “introductions” to the seven encyclical disciplines whose study is required for the comprehension of theosophy, that is, the esoteric speculation on the three parts of philosophy: anthropology-ethics, physics, and metaphysics-theology. By harmonizing the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and the Chaldean Oracles, Porphyry intends to present the complete and definitive philosophic system, with the aim of showing the universal way for the liberation of the souls of initiates and of contextually fighting the final battle of the Greco-Roman civilization against Christianity.
Porphyry Against the Christians
Author: Robert M. Berchman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004148116
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Porphyry's "Against the Christians" offers an important example of Hellenic Biblical criticism and a critique of Christianity at the close of Late Antiquity, fl. 300 C.E.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004148116
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Porphyry's "Against the Christians" offers an important example of Hellenic Biblical criticism and a critique of Christianity at the close of Late Antiquity, fl. 300 C.E.
The Christian philosopher; or, The connection of science and philosophy with religion. Celestial scenery; or, The wonders of the planetary system displayed. The sidereal heavens and other subjects connected with astronomy. The practical astronomer. The solar system: with moral and religious reflections, in reference to the wonders therein displayed. The atmosphere and atmospherical phenomena
Author: Thomas Dick
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
Author: Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300098396
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300098396
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
History of the Christian Church from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine
Author: Edward Burton
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three Hundred and Twenty-five Years from the Christian Era
Author: Johann Lorenz Mosheim
Publisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Christian Philosopher; Or, The Connection of Science and Philosophy with Religion
Author: Thomas Dick
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Theological Medium
Author:
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Category : Presbyterianism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Presbyterianism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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