Author: TertullianPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004169040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Originally published: Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1933.
The Philosophy of Early Christianity
Author: George E. KaramanolisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131754708X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Tertullian and the Unborn Child
Author: Julian BarrPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317045874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Tertullian of Carthage was the earliest Christian writer to argue against abortion at length, and the first surviving Latin author to consider the unborn child in detail. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Tertullian’s attitude towards the foetus and embryo. Examining Tertullian’s works in light of Roman literary and social history, Julian Barr proposes that Tertullian's comments on the unborn should be read as rhetoric ancillary to his primary arguments. Tertullian’s engagement in the art of rhetoric also explains his tendency towards self-contradiction. He argued that human existence began at conception in some treatises and not in others. Tertullian’s references to the unborn hence should not be plucked out of context, lest they be misread. Tertullian borrowed, modified, and discarded theories of ensoulment according to their usefulness for individual treatises. So long as a single work was internally consistent, Tertullian was satisfied. He elaborated upon previous Christian traditions and selectively borrowed from ancient embryological theory to prove specific theological and moral points. Tertullian was more influenced by Roman custom than he would perhaps have admitted, since the contrast between pagan and Christian attitudes on abortion was more rhetorical than real.
Walk in the Ways of Wisdom
Author: Elisabeth Schüssler FiorenzaPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781563384066
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
World-renowned scholars honor Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in this Festschrift.
Aristotle on Earlier Greek Psychology
Author: Jason W. CarterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481078
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Argues that Aristotle's psychology is shaped by his critical reception of earlier theories of soul, including the Presocratic and Platonic.
Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004289542
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Plato’s Phaedo has never failed to attract the attention of philosophers and scholars. Yet the history of its reception in Antiquity has been little studied. The present volume therefore proposes to examine not only the Platonic exegetical tradition surrounding this dialogue, which culminates in the commentaries of Damascius and Olympiodorus, but also its place in the reflections of the rival Peripatetic, Stoic, and Sceptical schools. This volume thus aims to shed light on the surviving commentaries and their sources, as well as on less familiar aspects of the history of the Phaedo’s ancient reception. By doing so, it may help to clarify what ancient interpreters of Plato can and cannot offer their contemporary counterparts.
The Despoliation of Egypt
Author: Joel Stevens AllenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004167455
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This work examines the role played by the biblical motif of the despoliation of Egypt in the understanding Gentiles had of Jews, and how Jews defended themselves, their heroes and their God in the face of anti-Jewish slander. It also examines the manner in which Christians learned from their rabbinic counterparts how to defend Moses and his God against the gnostic challenge. Beginning with Philo and based on haggadic additions, the embarrassment of the episode was 'healed' through allegory and became a critically important biblical justification for the Christian appropriation of the 'Egyptian treasures' of their Greco-Roman cultural heritage. This work describes how Christians borrowed exegetical traditions from rabbis not only to defend their sacred texts against gnostic attacks but to justify their interest in and appropriation of non-Christian philosophy in their theological understandings.
The Protean Ass
Author: Robert H. F. CarverPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199217866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A full account of the reception of the second-century prose fiction The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, which has intrigued readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries.
The Rhetoric of Imitation
Author: Gian Biagio ContePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801483592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Gian Biagio Conte here seeks to establish a theoretical basis for explaining the ways in which Latin poets borrow from one another and echo one another.
Of God and Man
Author: M. C. SteenbergPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567600475
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Scholarship in early Christianity has long focused on themes of theological doctrine on the one hand, and anthropology on the other. Doctrinal study has generally concentrated on the rise of Trinitarian language and Christological questions, while anthropological studies explore early perceptions of human nature, sin and redemption. This has produced standard chronologies of doctrine, dividing early Christian history into distinct, if interrelated periods of history in the development of these views. Building on current scholarship, this volume re-assesses such an approach to early patristic study through a sustained investigation of anthropology and theology as a single project in the fathers. Taking Irenaeus of Lyons, Tertullian of Carthage, Cyril of Jerusalem and Athanasius of Alexandria as chief examples of the period, it explores how concentration on the human provides the context and lens through which doctrinal questions are articulated. Assessing theology as anthropology-as the approach to doctrines of God through understandings of the human-creative insight is gleaned into refined developments of trinitiarian thought far earlier than Nicaea, and advanced reflections on the divinity of the Holy Spirit long before Constantinople. The nature of humanity as 'in the image of God' takes on a fresh potency when it is approached not only as a window on the human, but the means by which the human reveals the nature of God.
Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity
Author: Philip J. van der EijkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139443534
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus elaborated on philosophical methods such as causal explanation, definition and division and applied key concepts such as the notion of nature to their understanding of the human body. Similarly, philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were highly valued for their contributions to medicine. This interaction was particularly striking in the study of the human soul in its relation to the body, as illustrated by approaches to specific topics such as intellect, sleep and dreams, and diet and drugs. With a detailed introduction surveying the subject as a whole and an essay on Aristotle's treatment of sleep, this wide-ranging and accessible collection is essential reading for the student of ancient philosophy and science.