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Aristotle East and West : metaphysics and the division of Christendom / David Bradshaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradshaw, David, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle--Influence.
- Aristotle.
- Christianity--Philosophy--History.
- Christianity.
- God (Christianity)--History of doctrines.
- God (Christianity).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Aristotle East & West
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The result is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.
- Contents:
- The Aristotelian beginnings
- The prime mover Between Aristotle and Plotinus
- Plotinous and the theory of the two acts
- The Plotinian heritage in the West
- Gods, demons, and theurgy
- The formation of the eastern
- The flowering of the eastern tradition
- Palamas and Aquinas.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-16030-8
- 1-280-74999-7
- 0-511-26524-7
- 0-511-26596-4
- 0-511-26369-4
- 0-511-48248-5
- 0-511-30878-7
- 0-511-26452-6
- OCLC:
- 252533415
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