Aristotle and Early Christian Thought

ISBN-13: 9781032093604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

Mark Edwards

Opis

Aristotle and Early Christian Thought is the first book in English to give a synoptic account of the slow appropriation of Aristotelian thought in the Christian world from the second to the sixth centuries.

Spis treści

Preface; Chapter1: The Philosophy of Aristotle; Chapter 2: Aristotle in the Second Century; Chapter 3: Aristotle and Ante-Nicene Christianity; Chapter 4: The Neoplatonic Reaction to Aristotle; Chapter 5: Aristotle and the Trinity in the Fourth century; Chapter 6: Gregory of Nyssa and Aristotle; Appendix: Hypokeimenon in Gregory of Nyssa’s Doctrine of the Trinity; Chapter 7: Aristotle and the Christological Controversy; Chapter 8: John Philoponus, Theologian and Apologist; Chapter 9: Boethius and Aristotle; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Mark Edwards has been Tutor in Theology at Christ Church, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Patristics for the Faculty of Theology (now Theology and Religion) since 1993. Since 2014, he has held the title Professor of Early Christian Studies. His books include Neoplatonic Saints (2000), Origen against Plato (2002), Culture and Philosophy in the Age of Plotinus (2006), Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (2012) and Religions of the Constantinian Empire (2015).