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Theurgical project of Silver Age: from origins to problem statement [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2017 Two turning points in the history of theurgy are examined in the present article. Those points had a considerable influence on the conceptualization of that phenomenon in the very beginning of the XX century, especially in the researches of the Russian ...
Nina Penyaflor Rastorgueva
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Beyond the Polemics: Freedom and Necessity in Plotinus and St Maximus Confessor
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 49-63, January 2024.Abstract Abstract: The aim of this paper is to challenge the prevailing polemic between ‘necessary’ emanation and ‘free’ creation. I begin by arguing for the presence of freedom and volition in the emanationism of Plotinus. I then move on to explore the role of necessity in the creationism of Maximus. In both cases, I rely upon a twofold schematisation
Daniel Heide
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Le fragment 43 (des Places) de Numénius : problèmes de présentation, essais d’interprétation
Études Platoniciennes, 2013 The presentation of the fragments and testimonies about Numenius' thought is a real challenge for the editors. The order in which the texts are presented is decisive as far as the image of the philosopher they want to give to the reader is concerned.
Fabienne Jourdan
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Iamblichus and the Talisman of Gnosis
, 2017 For Neoplatonic philosophers, the Delphic oracle had authoritatively characterized their two great teachers, Iamblichus and Porphyry. Later Platonists cited the Pythia’s oracular pronouncement, “The Syrian is full of god; the Phoenican a polymath” as ...
Gregory Shaw
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One aspect of the methodology of cognition in Plato and Dionysius the Areopagite [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2008 Petr Moiseev (Perm State Institute of Arts and Culture)shows how the concept of ascension to truth, first formulated by Plato, was later reworked and reevaluated in new cognitive context by such later thinkers, as Plutarch, Iamblichus and, finally ...
Moiseev, Petr
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The Number of Books of Iamblichus’ Babyloniaca (on Photius Bibl. 94, 78b 3) [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of this paper is to reconsider the final words of chapter 94 in Photius’ Bibliotheca on Iamblichus’ Babyloniaca (ἐν οἷς ὁ ις ́ λόγος, “with these facts book 16 ends”).
BIANCHI, Nunzio
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Ars vitae in Iamblichus and in the Stoic Seneca [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2010 Seneca expounds a theory of therapy and teaching with the ultimate goal of self knowledge and wisdom. Some of his techniques are based on Pythagorean principles or derive ideas from them, among them the focused and constant ascesis of self control ...
Eliopoulos, Panos
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Could Iamblichus help us to understand one ancient relief? [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2015 Describing Pythagoras’ activities in Croton Iamblichus summarizes the content of his public speeches addressed to young men, to the Thousand who governed the city, as well as children and women of Croton.
Afonasina, Anna
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ReligionsThis article compares Ammonius’ and Aquinas’ answers to the conflict between divine determinate knowledge of the world and the contingency of future events.
Thomas Rego
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