Neoplatonism and gnosticism /
Richard T. Wallis, editor, Jay Bregman, associate editor.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, �1992.
- 1 online resource (xi, 531 pages).
- Studies in Neoplatonism ; v. 6 .
- Studies in Neoplatonism ; v. 6. .
Papers presented at the 6th international conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, entitled International Conference on Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, held at University of Oklahoma, Mar. 18-21, 1984.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theourgia -- demiourgia : a controversial issue in Hellenistic thought and religion / John P. Anton -- Dualism : Platonic, Gnostic, and Christian / A.H. Armstrong -- The 'second God' in Gnosticism and Plotinus's anti-Gnostic Polemic, translated from Spanish by Winifred T. Slater / Francisco Garcia Bazan -- Synesius, the Hermaetica and Gnosis / Jay Bregman -- Pleroma and Noetic cosmos : a comparative study / John M. Dillon -- Plotinus's anti-Gnostic Polemic and Porphyry's Against the Christians / Christos Evangeliou -- Theological doctrines of the Latin Asclepius / Stephen Gersh -- Negative theology in Gnosticism and Neoplatonism / Curits L. Hancock -- The Platonism of the Tripartite Tractate (NH I, 5) / John Peter Kenney -- The Noetic triad in Plotinus, Marius Victorinus, and Augustine / Peter Manchester -- "Plenty sleeps there" : the myth of Eros and psyche in Plotinus and Gnosticism / Patricia Cox Miller -- "The name of the father is the son" (Gospel of Truth 38) / Raoul Mortley -- Theurgic tendencies in Gnosticism and Iamblichus's conception of theurgy / Birger A. Pearson -- Beauty, number, and loss of order in the Gnostic cosmos / Pheme Perkins -- Theories of procession in Plotinus and the Gnostics / Jean Pepin -- Titus of Bostra and Alexander of Lycopolis : a Christian and a Platonic refutation of Manichaean dualism / Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa -- Le nombre et son ombre (resume) / Ara Alexandru Sismanian -- Mani's twin and Plotinus : questions of "self' / Leo Sweeney, S.J. -- Gnosticism and Platonism : the Platonizing Sethian texts from Nag Hammadi in their relations to later Platonic literature / John D. Turner -- Soul and Nous in Plotinus, Numenius and Gnosticism / Richard T. Wallis -- Higher providence, lower providences and fate in Gnosticism and Middle Platonism / Michael A. Williams.
Neoplatonism, a development of Plato's metaphysical and religious teaching, whose best-known representatives were Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, was the dominant philosophical school of the later Roman Empire and has been a major influence of European and Near Eastern thought and culture ever since. Yet the school's philosophy is only now coming to be studied in detail by historians of philosophy, largely because of the difficulty of the Neoplatonists' writings and the lack of a good summary exposition. This defect has been remedied in this, the first full-length study of the school by a single author to appear for over half a century. Lloyd P. Gerson's new Foreword sets that contribution in context; he also provides an up-dated Bibliography.