Platonism and Christianity in Late Ancient Cosmology

God, Soul, Matter

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Ana Schiavoni-Palanciuc is Professor of History of Art and Philosophy at the University Paris VII. She has published on the history of Byzantine Art as well as Patristic, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. She translated the Ambigua of Maximus the Confessor into French and is the author of The Reversed Perspective. Mathematical Structures in Byzantine Art and Thought (forthcoming).

Johannes Zachhuber, DPhil (1998), University of Oxford, is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford. He has published on the history of Christian ideas in late antiquity and the nineteenth century, including most recently The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics (Oxford: OUP, 2020).
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Introduction
 Ana Schiavoni-Palanciuc and Johannes Zachhuber

Lineage Trouble
Some Considerations on Plato as a Genealogist in the Timaeus
Marwan Rashed

The World Soul in Early Christian Thought
Johannes Zachhuber

Matter in the Dialogue of Adamantius
Origen’s Heritage and Hylomorphism
Ilaria L.E. Ramelli

Microcosme et image de Dieu
Deux approches de l’homme dans le De hominis opificio de Grégoire de Nysse
Laurent Lavaud

L’héliocentrisme dans la cosmologie de Proclus
Frédéric Berland

L’immutabilité et l’inengendrement de la matière première du monde en question
Les soubassements métaphysiques d’un cas d’École : Philopon versus Proclus
Pascal Mueller-Jourdan

The Christian Rejection of Ptolemean Cosmography in (Late) Antiquity
Motives, Modalities, and Backgrounds
Benjamin Gleede

« Le Seigneur des Puissances »
Une image de L’Ascension chez Denys l’Aréopagite
Radu Marasescu

The Creation of Man and His Constitution According to Anastasius Sinaïta
Sermones duo in constitutionem hominis secundum imaginem Dei
Carlo Dell’Osso

Un kaléidoscope byzantin sur les six jours de la création
Peter Van Deun

Index of Ancient Authors
Index of Modern Authors
General Index
The book is for all those with an interest in philosophy and Christian theology in late antiquity.

Le livre s'adresse à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la philosophie et à la théologie chrétienne de l'Antiquité tardive.
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