Reason, faith and otherness in neoplatonic and early Christian thought /
Kevin Corrigan.
- 1 volume (various pagings) ; 24 cm.
- Variorum collected studies series. .
- Collected studies. .
Introduction; Athens, Jerusalem ... overcoming the exclusivist paradigms of the past; Body and soul in ancient religious experience; Plato's Symposium and Bakhtin's theory of novelistic discourse (with Elena Glazov-Corrigan); 'To make a form it is necessary to fill everything with contemplation': making sense of creative horizons in the thought of Aristotle, Plotinus, and Plato; 'Solitary' mysticism in Plotinus, Proclus, Gregory of Nyssa and pseudo-Dionysius; Syncletica and Macrina: two early lives of women saints; The problem of personal and human identity; Ousia and hypostasis; Love of God, love of self, and love of neighbor: Augustine's critical dialogue with Platonism; The soul-body relation in and before Augustine; Simmias' objection to Socrates; Light and metaphor in Plotinus and St Thomas Aquinas; From Parmenides to Anselm: philosophy as prayer; The irreconcilable opposition between the Platonic and Aristotelian conceptions of soul and body; Ivan's devil; Religion and philosophy in the Platonic tradition. Bibliography: ancient texts; modern texts; Index.
9781409466871 1409466876
Neoplatonism. Christianity--Philosophy--History Faith and reason. Other (Philosophy)