From protology to eschatology : Competing views on the origin and the end of the cosmos in Platonism and Christian thought / Edited by Joseph Verhayden, Geert Roskam, and Gerd Van Riel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Verheyden, Joseph, 1957- editor.

Roskam, Geert, editor.

Van Riel, Gerd, editor.

Series:

Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 130.

Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 1436-3003 ; 130

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Platonists.

Creation--Biblical teaching.

Creation.

Cosmology--Religious aspects.

Cosmology.

Cosmology, Ancient.

Eschatology.

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2022.

Language Note:

7 contributions in English; 2 in French

Summary:

"How have Greek philosophical and early Christian tradition reflected on the origin and the goal of the cosmos and on the answers that were provided in the respective traditions? The essays in this volume show that Greek philosophical and early Christian tradition had a common interest in reflecting not only on the principles that govern cosmology and on how the cosmos is reverting on its principles, but also on the answers provided in each tradition." --Back cover

Contents:

Introduction / Joseph Verheyden/Geert Roskam/Gerd Van Riel

Eternalism in Aristotle and After / Andrea Falcon

L'interprétation proclienne de la création des âmes humaines dans le Timée de Platon / Alain Lernould

The (Meta)physics of Eating One's Children: Proclus' Interpretation of the Myth of Er / Marije Martijn

Éternité ou génération? La controverse entre Simplicius et Jean Philopon sur l'origine du monde / Marc-Antoine Gavray

From Eternal Life to the Word That Was in the Beginning: The Logic of Johannine Theology / Jörg Frey

Protology and Eschatology in Gnostic Thought / Einar Thomassen

"Where the Beginning Is, There Shall Be the End": Protology and Personal Eschatology in the Platonizing Sethian Apocalypses Zostrianos and Allogenes / John D. Turner†

"Above the Starry Canopy": Spatial and Non-Spatial Patristic Perspectives on the Christian Hope for Afterlife / Benjamin Gleede

"Mind the Ontological Gap!": The Collateral Loss of the Pauline-Stoic Creation "From God" in the Joint Attack of the Arian-Nicene Creation "From Nothing" on the Platonic Creation "From Disorderly Matter" / George van Kooten

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

3161610091

9783161610097

OCLC:

1288194234

Publisher Number:

9783161610097