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Mark J. Edwards (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021).

Abstract

"This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine. It examines how the same philosophical questions were approached by Christian and pagan thinkers; the philosophical element in Christian doctrines; the interaction of particular philosophies with Christian thought; and the constructive use of existing philosophies by all Christian thinkers of late antiquity. While most studies of ancient Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine make some reference to the philosophic background, this is often of an anecdotal character, and does not enable the reader to determine whether the likenesses are deep or superficial, or how pervasively one particular philosopher may have influenced Christian thought. This volume is designed to provide not only a body of facts more compendious than can be found elsewhere, but the contextual information which will enable readers to judge or clarify the statements that they encounter in works of more limited scope. With contributions by an international group of experts in both philosophy and Christian thought, this is an invaluable resource for scholars of early Christianity, Late Antiquity and ancient philosophy alike"--Publisher description.

Contents

Introduction / Mark Edwards -- SECTION 1: Themes -- Sources of religious knowledge / Peter Van Nuffelen -- Nature / Johannes Zachhuber -- Time and eternity / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli -- Creation in Early Christianity / George Karamanolis -- Providence and evil / Dylan M. Burns -- Ethics / Teresa Morgan -- Logic and religious language / Anna Zhyrkova -- The mystical element / Andrew Louth -- SECTION 2: Doctrines -- The Trinity / Giulio Maspero -- The philosophy of the incarnation / Dirk Krausmüller -- The philosophy of the resurrection in Early Christianity / Sophie Cartwright -- Biblical hermeneutics / Scot Douglass -- SECTION 3: Schools -- The Presocratics / M. David Litwa -- Socrates and Plato in the fathers / Joseph S. O'Leary -- Aristotle and his school / Mark Edwards -- Christians and Stoics / Mark Edwards -- Epicureans / Mark Edwards -- Cynics and Christians / Mark Reasoner -- Sceptics / Mark Edwards -- Philo of Alexandria / Mark Edwards -- Orpheus, Mithras, Hermes / Fabienne Jourdan, Mark Edwards -- Middle Platonists and Pythagoreans / Carl O'Brien -- Pagan and Christian philosophy: Plotinus, Iamblichus and Christian philosophical practice / Kevin Corrigan -- The philosophy of the later Neoplatonists: an interaction with Christian thought / Sarah Klitenic Wear -- SECTION 4: Individuals -- Justin and Athenagoras / Runar M. Thorsteinsson -- Tatian, Theophilus of Antioch and Irenaeus of Lyons / Josef Lössl -- Clement of Alexandria / Matyáš Havrda -- Tertullian and Cyprian / Allen Brent -- "Hippolytus" and Epiphanius of Salamis / Sébastien Morlet -- Origen and philosophy / Panayiotis Tzamalikos -- The Sethians and the Gnostics of Plotinus / Tuomas Rasimus -- Arnobius and Lactantius / Kristina A. Meinking / Philosophy in Eusebius and Marcellus / Aaron P. Johnson -- Arius and Athanasius / Winrich Löhr -- Marius Victorinus / Chiara Ombretta Tommasi -- Philosophy in Hilary of Poitiers and Ambrose of Milan / Isabella Image -- Eunomius of Cyzicus and Gregory of Nyssa / Andrew Radde-Gallwitz -- Didymus the Blind and Evagrius of Pontus / Mark Edwards -- Synesius of Cyrene: philosophy and poetry "sharing the same temple" / Irini-Fotini Viltanioti -- Augustine of Hippo / John Peter Kenney -- Cyril of Alexandria / Christoph Riedweg -- Theodoret of Cyrrhus / Mark Edwards -- Boethius: the first Christian philosopher in the Latin West? / Thomas Jürgasch -- John Philoponus / Orna Harari -- Dionysius the Areopagite / Mark Edwards -- Christian philosophy in Severus of Antioch and Leontiusof Byzantium / Benjamin Gleede.

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