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Platonic theories of prayer / edited by John Dillon, Andrei Timotin ; contributors, Luc Brisson [and nine others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; Volume 19.
- Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 1871-188X ; Volume 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Prayer.
- Philosophy and religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Platonic Theories of Prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. The volume originates from a panel on the topic held at the 2013 ISNS meeting in Cardiff, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers. Together they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period. The concept of prayer is shown to include not just formal petitionary or encomiastic prayer, but also theurgical practices and various states of meditation and ecstasy practised by such major figures as Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus, Damascius or Dionysius the Areopagite.
- Contents:
- Front Matter / John Dillon and Andrei Timotin
- Introduction / John Dillon and Andrei Timotin
- The Platonic Philosopher at Prayer / John Dillon
- Modes of Prayer in the Hellenic Tradition / Gilles Dorival
- Philo on Prayer as Devotional Study / Menahem Luz
- Prayer in Maximus of Tyre / Carl O’Brien
- Awaiting the Sun: A Plotinian Form of Contemplative Prayer / Michael Wakoff
- Porphyry on Prayer / Andrei Timotin
- Prayer in Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles / Luc Brisson
- Cosmic Etiology and Demiurgic Mimesis in Proclus’ Account of Prayer / Danielle A. Layne
- The Transmission of Fire: Proclus’ Theurgical Prayers / José Manuel Redondo
- Damascius and Dionysius on Prayer and Silence / Marilena Vlad
- Indexes / John Dillon and Andrei Timotin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-30900-4
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004309005 DOI
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