Elitism and the Approach to God /

Elitism and the Approach to God /

Elitism and the Approach to God investigates a historical and cultural dichotomy in European history which has not hitherto been satisfactorily explained Why did so many of the most influential "authorities" of the age insist that the nature and mystery of the divine and of God should not...

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Main Author: Raybould, Robin (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 359.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025

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Theology and World Christianity.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: The Witness of the Authorities: Reasons to Withhold the Secrets
  • 1 The Ignorant Were Not Initiated
  • 1 Origin of the Rites of Initiation
  • 2 Orpheus
  • 3 The Derveni Papyrus
  • 4 The Mysteries: an Experience of the Divine
  • 5 Plato and the Mysteries of Philosophy
  • 2 Reasons to Withhold the Secrets: the Ignorant Were Not Sufficiently Instructed
  • 1 Pagan Writers
  • 2 Christian Initiation: Jesus Christ
  • 3 Collegia
  • 3 Reasons to Withhold the Secrets: the Ignorant Were Not Worthy (I) - the First Millenium CE
  • 1 The Christian Fathers: Clement of Alexandria
  • 4 Reasons to Withhold the Secrets: the Ignorant Were Not Worthy (II) - the Renaissance
  • Part 2: Strategies to Understand the Divine Mysteries
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • Section 1: Direct Approaches to the Divine
  • 5 History of the Symbol
  • 6 The Neoplatonists
  • 7 Theurgy, Agalmata and the Divine Names
  • 8 Christian Mysticism
  • 9 Silence as a Medium to Approach God
  • 10 Visions and Dreams
  • 11 The Paradox of Concealing and Revealing
  • Section 2: Indirect Understanding of the Divine
  • Introduction to Section 2, Part 2
  • 12 Poetry and Myth
  • 1 The Myths
  • 13 Allegory
  • 1 Secular and Christian Allegories
  • 2 The Scriptures
  • 3 The Book of Nature
  • 14 The Literary Species
  • 1 Hieroglyphs
  • 2 Enigmas
  • 3 Bestiaries
  • 4 Emblems
  • Part 3: Why the Secrets Were to Be Withheld
  • Introduction to Part 3
  • 15 Disdain for the Unlearned
  • Conclusion
  • 1 The Elite
  • 2 Profanation and the Love of God
  • 3 The Status of Man
  • Bibliography
  • Index.