Platonic theories of prayer /

Platonic theories of prayer /

Platonic Theories of Prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. The volume originates from a panel on the topic held at the 2013 ISNS meeting in Cardiff, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers. Together they offer a comprehensive view of t...

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Other Authors: Dillon, John M.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 19.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303867.

Subjects:

Philosophy, Ancient.
Prayer.
Philosophy and religion.

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Call Number: B56

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
  • John Dillon and Andrei Timotin
  • Introduction /
  • John Dillon and Andrei Timotin
  • The Platonic Philosopher at Prayer /
  • John Dillon
  • Modes of Prayer in the Hellenic Tradition /
  • Gilles Dorival
  • Philo on Prayer as Devotional Study /
  • Menahem Luz
  • Prayer in Maximus of Tyre /
  • Carl O'Brien
  • Awaiting the Sun: A Plotinian Form of Contemplative Prayer /
  • Michael Wakoff
  • Porphyry on Prayer /
  • Andrei Timotin
  • Prayer in Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles /
  • Luc Brisson
  • Cosmic Etiology and Demiurgic Mimesis in Proclus' Account of Prayer /
  • Danielle A. Layne
  • The Transmission of Fire: Proclus' Theurgical Prayers /
  • José Manuel Redondo
  • Damascius and Dionysius on Prayer and Silence /
  • Marilena Vlad
  • Indexes /
  • John Dillon and Andrei Timotin.