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Christians and Platonists : the ethos of Late Antiquity / by Theodore Sabo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Description: 1 online resource (130 pages .)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443888356
  • 1443888354
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christians and Platonists.DDC classification:
  • 184.4 23
LOC classification:
  • B517 .S33 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chronology; Bibliography.
Summary: The Christians, Gnostics, and Platonists of late antiquity all shared that era's dislike of matter and the body. The first part of this book looks at key words like ethos, ai�on, and saeculum. The second part investigates the Neoplatonists, the Platonists of late antiquity. In the writings of Plotinus and Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, the dislike of matter and the body was boldly expressed. The third part shows that Gnosticism was second to none in its insistence that matter and the body were evil. It was elitist, suspicious of the political world, and often filled with an interest in magic.
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The Christians, Gnostics, and Platonists of late antiquity all shared that era's dislike of matter and the body. The first part of this book looks at key words like ethos, ai�on, and saeculum. The second part investigates the Neoplatonists, the Platonists of late antiquity. In the writings of Plotinus and Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, the dislike of matter and the body was boldly expressed. The third part shows that Gnosticism was second to none in its insistence that matter and the body were evil. It was elitist, suspicious of the political world, and often filled with an interest in magic.

Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chronology; Bibliography.

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