The Doctrine Of The Soul In The Thought Of Plotinus And Origen

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The Stoic Origins of Erasmus' Philosophy of Christ

Author : Ross Dealy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487500610

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"This study focuses on Erasmus' two-dimensional grasp of Stoicism evident in his edition of De officiis (1501) and the huge implications he saw for religion. The author argues that "The Philosophy of Christ' for which Erasmus is famous is a Christian version of Stoicism."--

Origen of Alexandria and St. Maximus the Confessor

Author : Edward Moore
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781581122619

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Origen of Alexandria and St. Maximus the Confessor by Edward Moore Pdf

The revision of Origen's philosophical theology by St. Maximus the Confessor resulted in an eschatology involving the replacement of the human ego by the divine presence. In this study, I will examine the theological developments that led to this loss of a sense of human freedom and creativity in the face of the divine, tracing the influence of Origen's eschatology through the Cappadocian Fathers, Evagrius Ponticus and others, up to Maximus. This will allow me to show the manner in which Origen's humanistic theology was misunderstood and misinterpreted throughout the Patristic era, culminating in the anti-personalistic system of Maximus. Special attention will be paid to the development of Christian Neoplatonism, and how Christian contacts with the pagan philosophical schools came to have a profound effect on Eastern Patristic theology and philosophy. The final section of this study will suggest some ways in which the history of Patristic eschatology - especially Origen and Maximus - may serve as a fruitful source for contemporary theologians who are concerned with issues of personhood, creativity, and existential authenticity.

PLOTINUS Ennead IV.8

Author : Barrie Fleet
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972780

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Plotinus was much exercised by Plato's doctrines of the soul. In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of "e;the divine Plato, who has said in many places in his works many noble things about the soul and its arrival here, so that we can hope for some clarity from him. So what does the philosopher say? It is clear that he does not always speak with sufficient consistency for us to make out his intentions with any ease."e; The issue in this treatise is one that has puzzled students of Plato from ancient to modern times-and is indeed a popular topic for undergraduate essays even today: Why should the philosopher, who has ascended through a long and painful process of dialectic to "e;assimilation to the divine,"e; ever descend back into the body? Plotinus himself is said by Porphyry to have attained such a state of other-worldly transcendence on at least four occasions during his lifetime, so this was a very real and personal issue for him. In this treatise we see him grappling with it.

Origen Against Plato

Author : Mark Julian Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351738767

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This title was first published in 2002.Origen (AD 185 - 254) is regarded as one of the figures chiefly responsible for the contamination of biblical theology with pagan philosophy in the early church. Edwards argues that Origen set out to construct a Christian philosophy, yet he did so with the intention of preserving theology from the infiltration of pagan thought. Examining the question of philosophical influence on Christian thought, Edwards argues that scholars have often leapt to unjustified conclusions based simply on common vocabulary or parallel development. This book advances new interpretations of the early Christian systems which are generally called 'Gnostic', and the Doctrine of the Trinity in Origen's 'Platonist' teacher Clement of Alexandria. Edwards concludes that Origen's hermeneutics, eschatology, cosmology and Trinitarian theology are all related to his understanding of human nature, which is radically opposed to that of Platonism.

Reflections on Jewish Mysticism

Author : Josef Bláha
Publisher : Marek Konecný
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cabala
ISBN : 9788026039013

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"This book deals with the Kabbalah and also with Hebrew literature and poetry. The book also deals with modern issues of philosophy, Levinas and Heidegger, and the relationship between philosophy and Kabbalah"--back cover.

Become Like the Angels

Author : Benjamin P. Blosser
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813220017

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Become Like the Angels by Benjamin P. Blosser Pdf

"An ambitious and very well-researched book on the way in which Origen deals with a fundamental issue in ancient philosophy---the position, state, and function of the soul in a living being. It is a topic at the core of all anthropological and cosmological thinking in Late Antiquity. In elegant, lucid prose, Blosser takes the reader gently through the minefield of previous scholarship and presents a very clear and skillful exposition of Origen as religious philosopher."---John A. McGuckin, Professor of Byzantine Church History, Columbia University, and Editor of The Westminster Handbook to Origen of Alexandria --Book Jacket.

Cross and Creation

Author : Mark E. Therrien
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 328 pages
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Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813235301

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Even though the theology of Origen of Alexandria has shaped the Christian Tradition in almost every way, the controversies over his legacy have been seemingly endless. One major interpretative trend, for example, has suggested Origen’s theology is really akin to the heterodox Gnostics against whom he wrote than the actual teaching of the Gospel, since he (supposedly) had a disdainful attitude towards Creation and ultimately saw little redemptive meaning in the Passion. In Cross and Creation: A Theological Introduction to Origen of Alexandria, Mark Therrien offers an original interpretation of Origen’s theology. Focusing on some of Origen’s most important works (especially On First Principles and the Commentary on John, but ultimately making reference to his writings more broadly), this book retrieves and examines some of the foundational pillars of Origen’s theology through close readings and re-examinations of those texts. It examines eight of these theological foundations: God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, the end, the soul, the world, the cross, and deification. Moreover, by showing the connections between Origen’s understanding of these foundational pillars, it also shows the coherence of his theology as a whole. Taken collectively, what emerges from these eight chapters is that two doctrines specially shape Origen’s theology: Cross and Creation. As Therrien shows, Origen did not hold contempt for Creation. Rather, Origen thinks that Creation emerges from the very life of God as eternally foreknown and provided for in the person of Christ, the Wisdom of God the Father. Moreover, he also holds that, though fallen, Creation will be restored according to its original, eternal intention in God precisely through the Passion of Jesus Christ on the Cross. The Cross is thus not minimalized in Origen’s theology; it is rather its very center.

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Principat. v

Author : Hildegard Temporini,Wolfgang Haase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Rome
ISBN : IND:39000000206800

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Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1777
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NYPL:33433081626412

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The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought

Author : Anna Usacheva,Jörg Ulrich,Siam Bhayro
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN : 3506703390

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The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought by Anna Usacheva,Jörg Ulrich,Siam Bhayro Pdf

This volume explores the long-standing tensions between such notions as soul and body, spirit and flesh, in the context of human immortality and bodily resurrection. The discussion revolves around late antique views on the resurrected human body and the relevant philosophical, medical and theological notions that formed the background for this topic. Soon after the issue of the divine-human body had been problematized by Christianity, it began to drift away from vast metaphysical deliberations into a sphere of more specialized bodily concepts, developed in ancient medicine and other natural sciences. To capture the main trends of this interdisciplinary dialogue, the contributions in this volume range from the 2nd to the 8th centuries CE, and discuss an array of figures and topics, including Justin, Origen, Bar Daisan, and Gregory of Nyssa.

On First Principles

Author : Origen
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780870612800

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Origen’s On First Principles is a foundational work in the development of Christian thought and doctrine: it is the first attempt in history at a systematic Christian theology. For over a decade it has been out of print with only expensive used copies available; now it is available at an affordable price and in a more accessible format. On First Principles is the most important surviving text written by third-century Church father, Origen. Origen wrote in a time when fundamental doctrines had not yet been fully articulated by the Church, and contributed to the very formation of Christianity. Readers see Origen grappling with the mysteries of salvation and brainstorming how they can be understood. This edition presents G. W. Butterworth’s trusted translation in a new, more readable format, retains the introduction by Henri de Lubac, and includes a new foreword by John C. Cavadini. As St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Doctor of the Church, wrote: “Origen is the stone on which all of us were sharpened.”

Origen — Cosmology and Ontology of Time

Author : Panayiotis Tzamalikos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047417637

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An exposition challenging inveterate verdicts ingrained in the historical / theological mindset about Origen, who is shown to have produced a sheerly new theory of Time, the Christian one. Claims attributing the tenet of a ‘beginningless world’ to him are disproved. The author challenges the widespread impression about this theology being bowled head over heels by its encounter with Platonism or Neoplatonism, casting new light on Origen’s grasp of the relation between Hellenism, Hebrew thought and Christianity.

PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7

Author : Barrie Fleet
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972964

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PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7 by Barrie Fleet Pdf

Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry's chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untangling various issues Plotinus found problematic in Plato's thinking, this one presents the teachings of the other main schools current in Plotinus' day: the Stoics, Epicureans, Pythagoreans, and Peripatetics, all of whom presented soul as something material or as contingent upon material soul, and so as being neither truly immortal nor imperishable. It includes observations on many mainly Stoic doctrines on perception, memory, sensation, thought, virtue, powers of material bodies, mixture and reproduction (Chapters 1-83); on Pythagorean attunement (84); and on Peripatetic entelechy (85). In Chapters 9-10 Plotinus presents, in broad terms, Plato's doctrines on soul's immortality-mainly that of the individual soul, but a fortiori that of the soul of the cosmos. These chapters offer some of Plotinus' most powerful prose. He is not concerned to prove the soul's immortality-that was an uncontroversial tenet of Platonism, to be taken for granted. In this treatise Plotinus is laying down the indisputable foundations for his later writings.

Two Books on the Essence of Soul: And One on the Descent of Soul

Author : Plotinus
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1377952002

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