From the first century BC onwards religion was embraced as a source of philosophical knowledge. This book shows how that approach increased the authority of religion and how it further developed in Christianity, thus contributing to current debates about the origins of modern ideas about religion.
From the first century BC onwards religion was embraced as a source of philosophical knowledge. This book shows how that approach increased the authority of religion and how it further developed in Christianity, thus contributing to current debates about the origins of modern ideas about religion.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Peter van Nuffelen is Professor of History at Universiteit Gent, Belgium. His interests cover Hellenistic history, ancient historiography, ancient religion and philosophy and late antique history and literature, including in oriental languages. He has published widely in these fields, including the monograph Un héritage de paix et de piété. Étude sur les Histoires ecclésiastiques de Socrate et de Sozomène (2004) and the edited volumes Faces of Hellenism (2009), Monotheism in Late Antiquity Between Christians and Pagans (2010, with S. Mitchell) and One God. Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire (First-Fourth Centuries AD) (2010, with S. Mitchell). He is currently working on projects on late antique historiography and on ritual communication in Late Antiquity.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Ancient Wisdom: 1. Tracing the origins: ancients, philosophers, and mystery cults 2. Plutarch of Chaeronea: 'History as a basis for a philosophy that has theology as its end' 3. Numenius: philosophy as a hidden mystery 4. Dio Chrysostom, Apuleius and the rhetoric of ancient wisdom Part II. Cosmic Hierarchy: 5. Towards the pantheon as the paradigm of order 6. The Great King of Persia and his satraps: ideal and ideology 7. Dio Chrysostom: virtue and structure in the Kingship Orations 8. Plutarch: a benevolent hierarchy of gods and men Part III. Polemic and Prejudice: Challenging the Discourse: 9. Lucian, Epicureanism and strategies of satire 10. Philo of Alexandria: challenging Greco-Roman culture 11. Celsus and Christian superstition Epilogue.
Introduction Part I. Ancient Wisdom: 1. Tracing the origins: ancients, philosophers, and mystery cults 2. Plutarch of Chaeronea: 'History as a basis for a philosophy that has theology as its end' 3. Numenius: philosophy as a hidden mystery 4. Dio Chrysostom, Apuleius and the rhetoric of ancient wisdom Part II. Cosmic Hierarchy: 5. Towards the pantheon as the paradigm of order 6. The Great King of Persia and his satraps: ideal and ideology 7. Dio Chrysostom: virtue and structure in the Kingship Orations 8. Plutarch: a benevolent hierarchy of gods and men Part III. Polemic and Prejudice: Challenging the Discourse: 9. Lucian, Epicureanism and strategies of satire 10. Philo of Alexandria: challenging Greco-Roman culture 11. Celsus and Christian superstition Epilogue.
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