St. Augustine and Plotinus : the human mind as image of the divine /

St. Augustine and Plotinus : the human mind as image of the divine /

In Augustine and Plotinus: the Human Mind as Image of the Divine Laela Zwollo provides an inside view of two of the most influential thinkers of late antiquity: the Christian Augustine and the Neo-Platonist Plotinus. By exploring the finer points and paradoxes of their doctrines of the image of God...

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Main Author: Zwollo, Laela (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 151.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, Supplement 2019, ISBN: 9789004390980.

Subjects:

Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430.
Plotinus.

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Call Number: BR65.A9 Z96 2019

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Augustine and Plotinus on Imaging the Divine
  • Augustine's Appraisal of Plotinus' Philosophy
  • Plotinus: Images, the Soul and the Ascent
  • Augustine: the Image of God in His Genesis Commentaries
  • The Image of the Trinity in De Trinitate
  • Prologue to Chapters 6-9 on Augustine and Plotinus
  • Augustine and Plotinus on the Godhead
  • Augustine and Plotinus on the Image-Intellect and Epistemology
  • Augustine and Plotinus on Love
  • Augustine and Plotinus on the Ascent
  • Plotinus in Augustine's Doctrine of the Image of God
  • Augustine's Christian Platonism
  • Epilogue
  • Back Matter
  • Primary Sources
  • Bibliography.