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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

Despoiling the Hellenes

By: Sarah Klitenic Wear

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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

Despoiling the Hellenes

By: Sarah Klitenic Wear

Dionysius the Areopagite' is arguably one of the most mysterious and intriguing figures to emerge from the late antique world. Writing probably around 500 CE, and possibly connected with the circle of Severus of Antioch, Dionysius manipulates a Platonic metaphysics to describe a hierarchical universe: as with the Hellenic Platonists, he arranges the celestial and material cosmos into a series of triadic strata. These strata emanate from one unified being and contain beings that range from superior to inferior, depending on their proximity to God. Not only do all things in the hierarchy participate in God, but also all things are inter-connected, so that the lower hierarchies fully participate in the higher ones. This metaphysics lends itself to a sacramental system similar to that of the Hellenic ritual, theurgy. Theurgy allows humans to reach the divine by examining the divine as it exists in creation. Although Dionysius' metaphysics and religion are similar to that of Iamblichus and Proclus in many ways, Pseudo-Dionysius differs fundamentally in his use of an ecclesiastical cosmos, rather than that of the Platonic Timaean cosmos of the Hellenes. This book discusses the Christian Platonist's adaptation of Hellenic metaphysics, language, and religious ritual. While Dionysius clearly works within the Hellenic tradition, he innovates to integrate Hellenic and Christian thought.

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1351159828

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The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides

By: Sarah Klitenic Wear

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The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides

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This books delves into the major tenets of Syrianus' philosophical teachings on the Timaeus and Parmenides based on the testimonia of Proclus, as found in Proclus' commentaries on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides, and Damascius, as reported in his On First Principles and commentary on Plato's Parmenides.

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9004192905

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The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides

By: Sarah Klitenic Wear

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Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa

A Christian Latin Reader

By: Sarah Klitenic Wear

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Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa

A Christian Latin Reader

By: Sarah Klitenic Wear

Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa: A Christian Latin Reader features the entirety of Tertullian's To Martyrs and The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, with selections from Cyprian's On the Good of Patience and a short appendix on Augustine's Commentary on Psalm 121.6. The Latin text has facing vocabulary and theological, historical, philosophical, and grammatical notes. In the first three centuries, Roman Carthage produced some of the earliest literature composed originally in Latin by Christians. Tertullian's Ad Martyras (197); Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (203), and Cyprian's De Bono Patientiae (256) all embody the force of this new genre of Latin literature. With this literature, we see a variant of Latin often denoted "Christian Latin." Christian Latin featured linguistic elements marked by characteristics of biblical Latin, later Latin, as well as vulgarisms. In addition to converging philologically, Tertullian, the author of the Passio, and Cyprian align themselves in topos: they all ask the question of how one can endure torment and anxiety in this world. Patience (patientia), derived from the verb for "to suffer" (patior), is a virtue that allows one to endure troubles, anxieties, and physical pains with the hope of eternal happiness and salvation in heaven. In this Reader, the student will find three different literary perspectives on this theme. The book also draws parallels to the works of Seneca and Cicero on patience and suffering.

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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides

The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides

The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides

The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides

Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa

Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa

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