This volume’s concise forays into a still surprisingly unfamiliar intellectual landscape bring ancient philosophy into the heart of early Christian exegesis. But Mark Edwards and company do not retreat to the safe, if vacuous, conjunction: early Christianity and philosophy, as if one were a prosthesis for the other. ![]() ‘For a modern intellectual culture that distrusts trust and prefers analysis to exegesis, the very notion of early Christian philosophy is apt to be an uncomfortable stretch. His books include Origen against Plato (2002), Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church (2009), Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (2012), Religions of the Constantinian Empire (2015), and Aristotle and Early Christian Thought (2019). Since 2014, he has held the title of Professor of Early Christian Studies. Mark Edwards has been Tutor in Theology at Christ Church, Oxford, and University Lecturer/ Associate Professor in Patristics in the Faculty of Theology and Religion in the University of Oxford since 1993. With contributions by an international group of experts in both philosophy and Christian thought, this is an invaluable resource for scholars of early Christianity, Late Antiquity and ancient philosophy alike. This volume is designed to provide not only a body of facts more compendious than can be found elsewhere, but the contextual information which will enable readers to judge or clarify the statements that they encounter in works of more limited scope. While most studies of ancient Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine make some reference to the philosophic background, this is often of an anecdotal character, and does not enable the reader to determine whether the likenesses are deep or superficial, or how pervasively one particular philosopher may have influenced Christian thought. It examines how the same philosophical questions were approached by Christian and pagan thinkers the philosophical element in Christian doctrines the interaction of particular philosophies with Christian thought and the constructive use of existing philosophies by all Christian thinkers of late antiquity. This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine. ![]() ![]() The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy 12 The philosophy of the resurrection in Early ChristianityĢ4 Pagan and Christian philosophy: Plotinus, Iamblichus and Christian philosophical practiceĢ5 The philosophy of the later Neoplatonists: an interaction with Christian thoughtĢ7 Tatian, Theophilus of Antioch and Irenaeus of Lyonsģ0 “Hippolytus” and Epiphanius of Salamisģ2 The Sethians and the Gnostics of Plotinusģ7 Philosophy in Hilary of Poitiers and Ambrose of Milanģ8 Eunomius of Cyzicus and Gregory of Nyssaģ9 Didymus the Blind and Evagrius of PontusĤ0 Synesius of Cyrene: philosophy and poetry “sharing the same temple”Ĥ4 Boethius: the first Christian philosopher in the Latin West?Ĥ7 Christian philosophy in Severus of Antioch and Leontius of Byzantium
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