By the Same Word

ISBN-13: 9783110193428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 406 str.

Ronald Cox

Opis

This study compares writings from Second Temple Judaism, the New Testament and Gnosticism that adopt the Middle Platonic tri-partite view of reality, with its transcendent One, its cosmologically active intermediary, and its material realm, in their efforts to explain the relationship between the Deity and the physical cosmos. The study shows that these Jewish, Christian and Gnostic writings take up this intermediary doctrine to different ends, reflecting their distinctive views about creation and humanity's place therein.

Recenzje

"[...] an impressive and provokative study."William Adler in: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72/2010 "This is a through study of an important issue across three bodies of literature, showing their common yet different appropriation of Middle Platonic philosophy."Lutz Doering in: Journal for the Study of the NT 31.5/2009

O autorze

Ronald Cox, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.