Platonism and Christianity in Late Ancient Cosmology

God, Soul, Matter
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51830-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

Reihe: Ancient Philosophy & Religion

The book breaks new ground by examining ideas about the cosmos, its shape, and its origin in late antiquity. Leading international experts discuss key texts and situate them in their historical environment.

Les articles innovants de ce volume examinent les idées sur le cosmos, sa forme et son origine dans l'Antiquité tardive. Des spécialistes internationaux de premier plan présentent des éditions inédites de nouveaux fragments, en approfondissant les textes clés, les situant dans leur cadre historique complexe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zachhuber, Johannes

Schiavoni-Palanciuc, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Ana Schiavoni-Palanciuc and Johannes Zachhuber

Lineage Trouble

Some Considerations on Plato as a Genealogist in the Timaeus

Marwan Rashed

The World Soul in Early Christian Thought

Johannes Zachhuber

Matter in the Dialogue of Adamantius

Origen’s Heritage and Hylomorphism

Ilaria L.E. Ramelli

Microcosme et image de Dieu

Deux approches de l’homme dans le De hominis opificio de Grégoire de Nysse

Laurent Lavaud

L’héliocentrisme dans la cosmologie de Proclus

Frédéric Berland

L’immutabilité et l’inengendrement de la matière première du monde en question

Les soubassements métaphysiques d’un cas d’École: Philopon versus Proclus

Pascal Mueller-Jourdan

The Christian Rejection of Ptolemean Cosmography in (Late) Antiquity

Motives, Modalities, and Backgrounds

Benjamin Gleede

' Le Seigneur des Puissances '

Une image de L’Ascension chez Denys l’Aréopagite

Radu Marasescu

The Creation of Man and His Constitution According to Anastasius Sinaïta

Sermones duo in constitutionem hominis secundum imaginem Dei

Carlo Dell’Osso

Un kaléidoscope byzantin sur les six jours de la création

Peter Van Deun

Index of Ancient Authors

Index of Modern Authors

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Schiavoni-Palanciuc is Professor of History of Art and Philosophy at the University Paris VII. She has published on the history of Byzantine Art as well as Patristic, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. She translated the Ambigua of Maximus the Confessor into French and is the author of The Reversed Perspective. Mathematical Structures in Byzantine Art and Thought (forthcoming).


Johannes Zachhuber, DPhil (1998), University of Oxford, is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford. He has published on the history of Christian ideas in late antiquity and the nineteenth century, including most recently The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics (Oxford: OUP, 2020).