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Book Porphyry in Fragments

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  • Author : Ariane Magny
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-08
  • ISBN : 1317077806
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Porphyry in Fragments written by Ariane Magny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved: he composed (at the end the 3rd century A.D.) fifteen discourses against the Christians, so offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt. We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Scholars have long thought that we could rely on those testimonies to know Porphyry's ideas. Exploring early religious debates which still resonate today, Porphyry in Fragments argues instead that Porphyry's actual thoughts became mixed with the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as well as those of other Christian opponents.

Book Porphyry in Fragments

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ariane Magny
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-08
  • ISBN : 1317077792
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Porphyry in Fragments written by Ariane Magny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved: he composed (at the end the 3rd century A.D.) fifteen discourses against the Christians, so offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt. We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Scholars have long thought that we could rely on those testimonies to know Porphyry's ideas. Exploring early religious debates which still resonate today, Porphyry in Fragments argues instead that Porphyry's actual thoughts became mixed with the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as well as those of other Christian opponents.

Book Against the Christians

Download or read book Against the Christians written by Porphyre and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre

Download or read book Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre written by Aaron P. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Porphyry of Tyre's critical engagement with Hellenism in late antiquity, emphasizing philosophical translation as the key to his thought.

Book Augustine and Porphyry

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  • Author : David C. DeMarco
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-03-26
  • ISBN : 9783506760555
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Augustine and Porphyry written by David C. DeMarco and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Porphyry Against the Christians

Download or read book Porphyry Against the Christians written by Robert M. Berchman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity

Download or read book Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity written by Michael Bland Simmons and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre

Book Porphyry   s Place in the Neoplatonic Tradition

Download or read book Porphyry s Place in the Neoplatonic Tradition written by A. Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1974 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a slightly emended version of a dissertation presented at the University of Hull in 1972. I realise only too well the deficiencies of style, presentation and material which this involves. The title implies a more final note than I had intended in my treatment of Porphyry. On reflexion, however, it seemed the most suited to convey the general purpose of my enquiries. A more rounded assessment of Porphyry can come only after some more basic work has been completed. An edition of his philosophical fragments, to which I am now turning my attention, is a prerequisite. lowe, of course, a great deal to all those who have written on NeoƯ platonism. I am particularly indebted to Prof. Willy Theiler under whose guidance I studied in Bern. Conversation with him always resulted in new directions of enquiry and I was constantly stimulated by his breadth of knowledge. I must also thank Prof. A.H. Armstrong who has constantly encouraged me and helped me to look more deeply into a number of problems. Welcome, too, was a detailed criticism of Part Two by Dr. R.T. Wallis. Their criticism and advice have not always been followed and the responsibility for the faults and weakƯ nesses of this book rests on myself.

Book U S  Geological Survey Professional Paper

Download or read book U S Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism

Download or read book Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism written by Crystal Addey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did ancient philosophers consult oracles, write about them, and consider them to be an important part of philosophical thought and practice? This book explores the extensive links between oracles and philosophy in Late Antiquity, particularly focusing on the roles of oracles and other forms of divination in third and fourth century CE Neoplatonism. Examining some of the most significant debates between pagan philosophers and Christian intellectuals on the nature of oracles as a central yet contested element of religious tradition, Addey focuses particularly on Porphyry's Philosophy from Oracles and Iamblichus' De Mysteriis - two works which deal extensively with oracles and other forms of divination. This book argues for the significance of divination within Neoplatonism and offers a substantial reassessment of oracles and philosophical works and their relationship to one another. With a broad interdisciplinary approach, encompassing Classics, Ancient Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies and Ancient History, Addey draws on recent anthropological and religious studies research which has challenged and re-evaluated the relationship between rationality and ritual.

Book Report of Investigations

Download or read book Report of Investigations written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineering and Mining Journal

Download or read book Engineering and Mining Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Geological Survey of Missouri
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Geological Survey of Missouri and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Philosophy of the Few against the Christians

Download or read book The Philosophy of the Few against the Christians written by Pier Franco Beatrice and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Bulletin

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1941
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

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Book Geological Survey Bulletin

Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: