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Porphyry, the Philosopher, to Marcella
Author | : Porphyry |
Publisher | : Society of Biblical Literature |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781555401399 |
Porphyry's Letter to His Wife Marcella
Author | : Porphyry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
With an introduction to the life of Porphyry and an overview of Neoplatonic thought by David Fideler.
Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual Context
Author | : K. Nilüfer Akçay |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004408274 |
Neoplatonic allegorical interpretation expounds how literary texts present philosophical ideas in an enigmatic and coded form, offering an alternative path to the divine truths. The Neoplatonist Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs is one of the most significant allegorical interpretation handed down to us from Antiquity. This monograph, exclusively dedicated to the analysis of On the Cave of Nymphs, demonstrates that Porphyry interprets Homer’s verse from Odyssey 13.102-112 to convey his philosophical thoughts, particularly on the material world, relationship between soul and body and the salvation of the soul through the doctrines of Plato and Plotinus. The Homeric cave of the nymphs with two gates is a station where the souls descend into genesis and ascend to the intelligible realm. Porphyry associates Odysseus’ long wanderings with the journey of the soul and its salvation from the irrational to rational through escape from all toils of the material world.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Author | : Edward Craig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780415187121 |
Volume seven of a ten volume set which provides full and detailed coverage of all aspects of philosophy, including information on how philosophy is practiced in different countries, who the most influential philosophers were, and what the basic concepts are.
Porphyry, the Philosopher, to His Wife, Marcella
Author | : Porphyry |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781016484138 |
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Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith
Author | : Martin Laird |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 019153322X |
Scholars of Gregory of Nyssa have long acknowledged the centrality of faith in his theory of divine union. To date, however, there has been no sustained examination of this key topic. The present study fills this gap and elucidates important auxiliary themes that accrue to Gregory's notion of faith as a faculty of apophatic union with God. The result adjusts how we understand the Cappadocian's apophaticism in general and his so-called mysticism of darkness in particular. After a general discussion of the increasing value of faith in late Neoplatonism and an overview of important work done on Gregorian faith, this study moves on to sketch a portrait of the mind and its dynamic, varying cognitive states and how these respond to the divine pedagogy of scripture, baptism, and the presence of God. With this portrait of the mind as a backdrop we see how Gregory values faith for its ability to unite with God, who remains beyond the comprehending grasp of mind. A close examination of the relationship between faith and mind shows Gregory bestowing on faith qualities which Plotinus would have granted only to the `crest of the wave of intellect'. While Gregorian faith serves as the faculty of apophatic union with God, faith yet gives something to mind. This dimension of Gregory's apophaticism has gone largely unnoticed by scholars. At the apex of an apophatic ascent faith unites with God the Word; by virtue of this union the believer takes on the qualities of the Word, who speaks (logophasis) in the deeds and discourse of the believer. Finally this study redresses how Gregory has been identified with a `mysticism of darkness' and argues that he proposes no less a `mysticism of light'.