Jesus As Founder Of A Platonic Christianity

Author : Enno Edzard Popkes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783751972024

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Jesus as founder of a Platonic Christianity by Enno Edzard Popkes Pdf

The Gospel of Thomas conveys central ideas of Platonism as the message of Jesus, above all the ideas of the immortality of the soul, of the transmigration of souls, of the soul becoming equal to God and of the knowledge of `true light ́. It interprets the figure of Jesus as the incarnation of the `true light ́, which, according to Plato, can only be experienced outside the present world. It is the light from which people come and into which they return. The Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas understands all human beings as carriers of this divine light, which illuminates the world when they become equal to him. For the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus is the founder of a `Platonic Christianity ́.

Author : Alexander J. B. Hampton,John Peter Kenney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108676472

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Christian Platonism by Alexander J. B. Hampton,John Peter Kenney Pdf

Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with an intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternatively, it has been considered a compromising influence, conflicting with the faith's revelatory foundations and distorting its inherent message. In both cases the fundamental importance of Platonism, as a force which Christianity defined itself by and against, is clear. Written by an international team of scholars, this landmark volume examines the history of Christian Platonism from antiquity to the present day, covers key concepts, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.

Author : Constantin Ackermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Christianity
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4WC9

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The Christian Element in Plato and the Platonic Philosophy by Constantin Ackermann Pdf

Author : Meredith G. Kline
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725206540

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Images of the Spirit by Meredith G. Kline Pdf

The underlying concept developed here is the paradigmatic function of the theophanic Glory-cloud in the creation of the image of God. Dr. Kline identifies the major symbolic models employed in Scripture to expound the nature of the divine image in humanity - the priestly and the prophetic.

Author : Anders Klostergaard Petersen,George H. van Kooten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004323131

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Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World by Anders Klostergaard Petersen,George H. van Kooten Pdf

This first volume of the new Brill series “Ancient Philosophy & Religion” offers analyses of Platonic philosophy and piety, the emergence of a common religio-philosophical discourse in Antiquity, the place of Jesus among ancient philosophers, and responses of pagan philosophers to Christianity from the second century to Late Antiquity.

Author : Brian Dobell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139482196

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Augustine's Intellectual Conversion by Brian Dobell Pdf

This book examines Augustine's intellectual conversion from Platonism to Christianity, as described at Confessions 7.9.13–21.27. It is widely assumed that this occurred in the summer of 386, shortly before Augustine's volitional conversion in the garden at Milan. Brian Dobell argues, however, that Augustine's intellectual conversion did not occur until the mid-390s, and develops this claim by comparing Confessions 7.9.13–21.27 with a number of important passages and themes from Augustine's early writings. He thus invites the reader to consider anew the problem of Augustine's conversion in 386: was it to Platonism or Christianity? His original and important study will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the history of philosophy and the history of theology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0664250165

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Moral Exhortation by Anonim Pdf

Translated selections of writings on ethics by Arius Didymus, Cicero, Crates, Demetrius of Phalerum, Dio Chrysostom, Diogenes, Diogenes Laertius, Epictetus, Epicurus, Hierocles, Horace, Isocrates, Julian, Lucian of Samosata, Maximus of Tyre, Melissa, Musonius Rufus, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Seneca, Sextus Empiricus, and Theano, and from the Gnomologium Vaticanum, Oxyrhynchus Papyrus, and Pythagorean Sentences.

Author : Ronald Cox
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110212143

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By the Same Word by Ronald Cox Pdf

Middle Platonism explained how a transcendent principle could relate to the material world by positing an intermediary, modeled after the Stoic active cause, that mediated the supreme principle’s influence to the world while preserving its transcendence. Having similar concerns as Middle Platonism, Hellenistic Jewish sapientialism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism appropriated this intermediary doctrine as a means for understanding their relationship to God and to the cosmos. However, these traditions vary in their adaptation of this teaching due to their distinctive understanding of creation and humanity’s place therein. The Jewish writings of Philo of Alexandria and Wisdom of Solomon espouse a holistic ontology, combining a Platonic appreciation for noetic reality with an ultimately positive view of creation and its place in human fulfillment. The early Christians texts of 1 Cor 8:6, Col 1:15-20, Heb 1:2-3, and the prologue of John provide an eschatological twist to this ontology when the intermediary figure finds final expression in Jesus Christ. Contrarily, Poimandres (CH 1) and the Apocryphon of John, both associated with the traditional rubric “Gnosticism”, draw from Platonism to describe how creation is antithetical to human nature and its transcendent source.

Author : John Dominic Crossan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567086682

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Birth of Christianity by John Dominic Crossan Pdf

John Dominic Crossan explores the lost years of earliest Christianity, the years immediately following Jesus' execution. He establishes the contextual setting through a combination of literary, anthropological, historical and archaeological approaches. He challenges the assumptions about the role of Paul and the meaning of resurrection, and forges a new understanding of the birth of the Christian church. Here is a vivid account of early Christianity's interaction with the world around it, and of the new traditions and communities established as Jesus' companions continued their movement after his death.

Author : Louis Markos
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830853052

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From Plato to Christ by Louis Markos Pdf

What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith? Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of the ancient Greek philosophy of Plato, who was both Socrates's student and Aristotle's teacher. To help us understand the influence of Platonic thought on the Christian faith, Louis Markos offers careful readings of some of Plato's best-known texts and then traces the ways that his work shaped the faith of some of Christianity's most beloved theologians, including Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, Dante, and C. S. Lewis. With Markos's guidance, readers can ascend to a true understanding of Plato's influence on the faith.

Author : Russell E. Gmirkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000578423

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Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts by Russell E. Gmirkin Pdf

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato’s famous account of the origins of the universe, mortal life and evil containing equal parts science, theology and myth. This book is the first to systematically compare biblical, Ancient Near Eastern and Greek creation accounts and to show that Genesis 1-3 is heavily indebted to Plato’s Timaeus and other cosmogonies by Greek natural philosophers. It argues that the idea of a monotheistic cosmic god was first introduced in Genesis 1 under the influence of Plato’s philosophy, and that this cosmic Creator was originally distinct from the lesser terrestrial gods, including Yahweh, who appear elsewhere in Genesis. It shows the use of Plato’s Critias, the sequel to Timaeus, in the stories about the Garden of Eden, the intermarriage of "the sons of God" and the daughters of men, and the biblical flood. This book confirms the late date and Hellenistic background of Genesis 1-11, drawing on Plato’s writings and other Greek sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria. This study provides a fascinating approach to Genesis that will interest students and scholars in both biblical and classical studies, philosophy and creation narratives. .

Author : Gary Petty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615917135

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Plato's Shadow by Gary Petty Pdf

If Jesus' apostles walked the earth today, would they recognize Christianity? Plato's Shadow looks at some foundational teachings of the earliest Christians, exploring how Greek and Roman society later shaped their message. The early church used the Old Testament as Scripture and believed in Jesus as the prophesied Messiah. It also taught that baptism and laying on of hands are necessary for converts. Early Christians shunned the use of any images in their worship, observing the Ten Commandments as the foundation of Christian conduct. The forces of gnosticism and Hellenistic society reshaped these teachings. As a result, some of today's most cherished Christian teachings are remarkably different from what the early church taught. Today, millions of Christians are searching for a deeper understanding of God's purpose in their lives. The answers can be found in the teachings and customs of the earliest followers of Jesus Christ. Discover for yourself the importance of "primitive Christianity" through Plato's Shadow.

Author : Hershel Shanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000036564577

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Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism by Hershel Shanks Pdf

This book tells the story of the formation of classical Judaism and orthodox Christianity as parallel yet interlocking histories. Here, in a series of chapters written by leading scholars in this country and in Israel, the reader is offered a general account of how, during the first six centuries of the Common Era, Judaism and Christianity took the form we recognize today.

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520235069

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Heritage and Hellenism by Erich S. Gruen Pdf

In these fictive creations, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us vital insights into Jewish self-perception.

Author : Louis Markos
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736973076

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Atheism on Trial by Louis Markos Pdf

Answers You Need for the Tough Questions About Your Faith Atheists are launching a new wave of attacks against Christianity and faith in God. It's hard to know how to handle their claims that they have a more enlightened, scientific, and sophisticated worldview. How can you respond with precision to arguments against your faith? With instructive clarity, Dr. Louis Markos confronts the modern-day atheists' claims that new evidence disproves the existence of God. In fact, you will find that the "proof" they peddle is not new at all. Rather, they recycle claims that have already been disproven by Christian thinkers of the past...claims that you can silence today with the same solid logic. Equip yourself to defend your beliefs from a deep well of knowledge and conviction. Stand in confidence that the trial of public opinion versus universal truth has already been held—and God is the victor.