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).
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors
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.