The Philosophy Theology And Rhetoric Of Marius Victorinus

Author : Stephen A. Cooper
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628375299
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy, Theology, and Rhetoric of Marius Victorinus written by Stephen A. Cooper and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pagan rhetor, (Neo-)Platonist philosopher, Christian theologian This collection of essays is devoted to the rhetoric, Neoplatonic philosophy, and Christian theology of Marius Victorinus, a mid-fourth-century professor of rhetoric and philosopher who converted to Christianity late in life. Scholars from eight different countries, some of whom have not previously published in English, reflect on debates about his writings and theological development. These topics include Victorinus's deployment of philosophical sources for trinitarian theology, possible connections in his work to Origen, Augustine, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Gnosticism, as well as his contributions to Latin rhetoric and dialectic. Contributors include Jan Dominik Bogataj, Michael Chase, Nello Cipriani, Stephen A. Cooper, Volker Henning Drecoll, Lenka Karfíková, Josef Lössl, Václav Němec, Thomas Riesenweber, Guadalupe Lopetegui Semperena, Miran Špelič, Chiara O. Tommasi, John D. Turner, and Florian Zacher. The chapters in this volume are of great interest to students of late antique philosophy, Christian theology, and Latin rhetoric.

Author : Stephen Andrew Cooper
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics and Morals in Marius Victorinus' Commentary on the Letter to the Ephesians written by Stephen Andrew Cooper and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marius Victorinus was the first Latin Christian of the fourth century to show the influence of Neoplatonism (Plotinus and Porphyry). As a convert from paganism, Victorinus' version of Christianity offers the student of Late Antiquity a window for understanding the conversion of the upper classes in the Western Roman Empire to Christianity. Because he was a professional rhetorician, an analysis of the exegetical work enables us to see how the moral mindset of the rhetorical schools found itself at home within Christianity. The Neoplatonic influences in the works of Ambrose and Augustine can be appreciated better when understood in relation to the intellectual circles that preceded them, Victorinus being the most well documented figure of this milieu.

Author : Christoph Pieper
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004516441
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scholia on Cicero's Speeches written by Christoph Pieper and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the first one dedicated to the ancient scholia to Cicero's speeches, analyzes them from different angles and positions them in the broader context of late antique commentaries and learning.

Author : Nathan Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009027824
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and Being written by Nathan Lyons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element examines how the Western philosophical-theological tradition between Plato and Aquinas understands the relation between God and being. It gives a historical survey of the two major positions in the period: a) that the divine first principle is 'beyond being' (Example Plato, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius), and b) that the first principle is 'being itself' (Example Augustine, Avicenna, Aquinas). The Element argues that we can recognize in the two traditions, despite their apparent contradiction, complementary approaches to a shared project of inquiry into transcendence.

Author : Luigi Gioia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theological Epistemology of Augustine's De Trinitate written by Luigi Gioia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luigi Gioia provides a fresh description and analysis of Augustine's monumental treatise, De Trinitate, working on a supposition of its unity and its coherence from structural, rhetorical, and theological points of view. The main arguments of the treatise are reviewed first: Scripture and the mystery of the Trinity; discussion of 'Arian' logical and ontological categories; a comparison between the process of knowledge and formal aspects of the confession of the mystery of the Trinity; an account of the so called 'psychological analogies'. These topics hold a predominantly instructive or polemical function. The unity and the coherence of the treatise become apparent especially when its description focuses on a truly theological understanding of knowledge of God: Augustine aims at leading the reader to the vision and enjoyment of God the Trinity, in whose image we are created. This mystagogical aspect of the rhetoric of De Trinitate is unfolded through Christology, soteriology, doctrine of the Holy Spirit and doctrine of revelation. At the same time, from the vantage point of love, Augustine detects and powerfully depicts the epistemological consequences of human sinfulness, thus unmasking the fundamental deficiency of received theories of knowledge. Only love restores knowledge and enables philosophers to yield to the injunction which resumes philosophical enterprise as a whole, namely 'know thyself'.

Author : Yury Arzhanov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111388212
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Porphyry in Syriac written by Yury Arzhanov and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2021, a previously unknown treatise by Porphyry of Tyre, which has been preserved in a Syriac translation, was made available to historians of philosophy: Porphyry, On Principles and Matter (De Gruyter, 2021). This text not only enlarges our knowledge of the legacy of the most prominent disciple of Plotinus but also serves as an important witness to Platonist discussions of first principles and of Plato’s concept of prime matter in the Timaeus. The aim of the present volume of collected studies is two-fold. On the one hand, it brings up an update to the state of the art of our knowledge of Porphyry’s philosophy and of his role in the transmission of the earlier philosophical materials, especially those of the Middle Platonic works. On the other hand, it focuses on the questions of the reception of Porphyry’s legacy, both by Greek and Latin Platonists (with special interest in Calcidius) and by Christian Oriental authors (with particular focus on the Syriac tradition). The primary audience of the book will be scholars and graduate students in ancient and late ancient Greek philosophy, Orientalists and scholars interested in the Christian reception of Greek philosophy, in the studies of the Christian Orient, as well as in Greek, Latin, and Syriac philology.

Author : Mary T. Clark
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789124476
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine, Philosopher of Freedom written by Mary T. Clark and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riches of our Christian tradition need to be mined anew for each generation. Accordingly, Mother Clark’s book is destined to make the treasures of Augustine’s thought accessible to the student and to the average reader. Contributing to a clearer, more complete understanding of Augustine, Mother Clark considers her subject in the light of a single, basic principal: the idea of freedom. Augustine himself is allowed in this book to speak out on a topic so appropriate to the world today. Freedom, exploited by Existentialists, denied by Totalitarians, was appreciated properly by St. Augustine. Here is a book calculated to put in bold relief the timelessness of Augustine’s genius and to explain to modern man the truths he needs most: the meaning of God and the meaning of man.

Author : Sara Contini
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161627733
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Dignity in the Latin Reception of Origen written by Sara Contini and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Gronewoller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019756657X
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Rhetorical Economy in Augustine's Theology written by Brian Gronewoller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430) studied and taught rhetoric for nearly two decades until, at the age of thirty-one, he left his position as professor of rhetoric in Milan to embark upon his new life as a Christian. This was not a clean break in Augustine's thought. Previous scholarship has done much to show us that Augustine integrated rhetorical ideas about texts and speeches into his thought on homiletics, the formation of arguments, and scriptural interpretation. Over the past few decades a new movement among scholars has begun to show that Augustine also carried rhetorical concepts into areas of his thought that were beyond the typical purview of the rhetorical handbooks. In Rhetorical Economy in Augustine's Theology, Brian Gronewoller contributes to this new wave of scholarship by providing a detailed examination of Augustine's use of the rhetorical concept of economy in his theologies of creation, history, and evil, in order to gain insights into these fundamental aspects of his thought. This study finds that Augustine used rhetorical economy as the logic by which he explained a multitude of tensions within, and answered various challenges to, these three areas of his thought as well as others with which they intersect-including his understandings of providence, divine activity, and divine order.

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316175936
Total Pages : 1584 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity written by Lloyd P. Gerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE. Designed as a successor to The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (edited by A. H. Armstrong), it takes into account some forty years of scholarship since the publication of that volume. The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assessments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored. The volume also includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have been written during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this rich and still emerging field.