Neoplatonism and Early Christian Thought: Essays in Honour of A.H. Armstrong

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Ashgate Publishing, Limited, 1981 - Philosophy - 256 pages
"The studies collected in this book are all concerned with aspects of the Platonic tradition, either in its own internal development in the Hellenistic age and the period of the Roman Empire, or with the influence of Platonism, in one or other of its forms, on other spiritual traditions, especially that of Christianity." [Book jacket].

Contents

An Exploration of a Theme
33
Plutarch Platonism and Christianity
50
The Importance of Stoic Logic in the Contra Celsum
64
Potentiality and the Problem of Plurality in
99
Plotinus and the Gnostics on the Generation of Matter
108
Ouranos Kronos and Zeus in Plotinus Treatise Against
124
The Gnostics and The Ancient Philosophy in Plotinus
138
The Neoplatonism of Marius Victorinus the Christian
153
Some
171
Confessions X 2943
180
Hellenism and Christianity in Basil the Greats Address
189
Augustine
204
Plotinus in Later Platonism
212
Divine Omniscience in Plotinus Proclus and Aquinas
223
Reflections on Neoplatonic
236
Abbreviations
249

The Role of Neoplatonism in St Augustines De Civitate
160
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