TY - BOOK AU - Corrigan,Kevin TI - Reason, faith and otherness in neoplatonic and early Christian thought T2 - Variorum collected studies series SN - 9781409466871 KW - Neoplatonism KW - Christianity KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - Faith and reason KW - Other (Philosophy) N1 - 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 ER -