Intimations Of Christianity Among The Ancient Greeks

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000964930
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks written by Simone Weil and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone Weil is one of the greatest philosophical and spiritual writers of the 20th century and was hailed by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our times' This book is a classic - and controversial - for the way Weil argues that key themes that later defined Christian belief are first found in ancient Greek writers and philosophers Waiting for God, also by Weil and published in Routledge Classics in 2021, has sold almost 1,000 copies in just over a year Includes a new foreword by Christopher Hamilton

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100016022X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimations of Christianity Among The Greeks written by Simone Weil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of Simone Weil's writings, which reflect her intellectual and spiritual concerns, on Greek thought. It discusses how precursors to Christian religious ideas can be found in ancient Greek mythology, literature and philosophy.

Author : L. Ruprecht
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299192
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Was Greek Thought Religious? written by L. Ruprecht and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the First century, to Romanticism in the Nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture - we even debate the place of the Greeks in the European Union. This book notices the lingering and half-hidden presence of the Greeks in some strange places - everywhere from the U.S. Supreme Court to the Modern Olympic Games - and in doing so makes an important new contribution to a very old debate.

Author : Palle Yourgrau
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 186189998X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simone Weil written by Palle Yourgrau and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, political activist, and mystic, died in 1943 at a sanatorium in Kent, England, at the age of thirty-four. During her brief lifetime, Weil was a paradox of asceticism and reclusive introversion who also maintained a teaching career and an active participation in politics. In this concise biography, Palle Yourgrau outlines Weil’s influential life and work and demonstrates how she tried to apply philosophy to everyday life. Born in Paris to a cultivated Jewish-French family, Weil excelled at philosophy, and her empathetic political conscience channeled itself into political engagement and activism on behalf of the working class. Yourgrau assesses Weil’s controversial critique of Judaism as well as her radical re-imagination of Christianity—following a powerful religious experience in 1937—in light of Plato’s philosophy as a bridge between human suffering and divine perfection. In Simone Weil, Yourgrau provides careful, concise readings of Weil’s work while exploring how Weil has come to be seen as both a modern saint and a bête noir, a Jew accused of having abandoned her own people in their hour of greatest need.

Author : Takeshi Amemiya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135991715
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece written by Takeshi Amemiya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding to the small amount that has been written on this aspect of economic history, Amemiya, a leading economist based at Stanford University, analyzes the exact nature of the ancient Greek economy, offering an unprecedented broad and comprehensive survey.

Author : Marie Cabaud Meaney
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191526479
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature written by Marie Cabaud Meaney and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Cabaud Meaney looks at Simone Weil's Christological interpretations of the Sophoclean Antigone and Electra, the Iliad and Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. Apart from her article on the Iliad, Weil's interpretations are not widely known, probably because they are fragmentary and boldly twist the classics, sometimes even contradicting their literal meaning. Meaney argues that Weil had an apologetic purpose in mind: to the spiritual ills of ideology and fanaticism in World War II she wanted to give a spiritual answer, namely the re-Christianization of Europe to which she (though not baptized herself) wished to contribute in some way. To the intellectual agnostics of her day she intended to show through her interpretations that the texts they cherished so much could only be fully understood in light of Christ; to the Catholics she sought to reveal that Catholicism was much more universal than generally believed, since Greek culture already embodied the Christian spirit - perhaps to a greater extent than the Catholic Church ever had. Despite or perhaps because of this apologetic slant, Weil's readings uncover new layers of these familiar texts: Antigone is a Christological figure, combating Creon's ideology of the State by a folly of love that leads her to a Passion in which she experiences an abandonment similar to that of Christ on the Cross. The Iliad depicts a world as yet unredeemed, but which traces objectively the reign of force to which both oppressors and oppressed are subject. Prometheus Bound becomes the vehicle of her theodicy, in which she shows that suffering only makes sense in light of the Cross. But the pinnacle of the spiritual life is described in Electra which, she believes, reflects a mystical experience - something Weil herself had experienced unexpectedly when 'Christ himself came down and took her' in November 1938. In order to do justice to Weil's readings, Meaney not only traces her apologetic intentions and explains the manner in which she recasts familiar Christian concepts (thereby letting them come alive - something every good apologist should be able to do), but also situates them among standard approaches used by classicists today, thereby showing that her interpretations truly contribute something new.

Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004453679
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anagnorisis: Scenes and Themes of Recognition and Revelation in Western Literature written by Piero Boitani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirited narration of the scenes and the themes of recognition and revelation from Homer and Genesis to the major classical, Medieval, and modern writers: anagnorisis as the living, moving encounter between two human beings.

Author : Joe E. Barnhart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351769235
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of First-Century Christianity written by Joe E. Barnhart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally pulished in 2000, In Search of First Century Christianity contends that Christianity in the first century had no founder but rather evolved as a convergence of many forces: political disillusionment, cultural mutations, religious and theological motifs, psychosocial losses and new expectations. Moving on from an examination of the foundations of historical and literary criticism in the Renaissance, and a detailed study of two writers in antiquity,Thucydides and Chariton, to examine writings in the period between Plato and the Gospel of Mark, the authors then explore the writing of Paul and the stories told in the Gospels. With the early Christians drawing from both Greek and Hebrew sources, Barnhart and Kraeger propose that, like Plato, Paul and other Christians generated an "anti-tragic theatre" gospel with the Jesus figure being the creation of a culture steeped in an anthropomorphic, metaphysical view of the world.

Author : Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004324763
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religious Aspects of War in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome written by Krzysztof Ulanowski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, in minute detail, presents a polyphony of voices, perspectives and opinions, from which emerges a diverse but coherent representation of the complex relationship between religion and war in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome.

Author : Mark D. Chapman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319633724
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope in the Ecumenical Future written by Mark D. Chapman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fresh insights into the contemporary state of Ecumenism. Following the election of Pope Francis, there has been a significant thaw in ecumenical relations, and there are grounds for thinking that this will continue into the future. The twelve chapters, written both by experienced ecumenical theologians as well as younger scholars, that have been gathered together in this collection, offer one of the first detailed assessments of the impact of Francis’ papacy on ecumenical dialogue. Drawing on ecumenical methodology, as well as many practical examples and illustrations, the authors discuss the developments in culture and missiology as these affect the practice of ecumenism, particularly in response to theologies of hope as well as inter-religious dialogue and pluralism. What emerges is a clear sense of hope for the future in a rapidly changing world and even a sense of optimism that real ecumenical progress might be made.