The philosophical dimension of the christological controversy
<p><strong>Extract:</strong> In recent years, Patristic philosophy has attracted an increasing share of scholarly attention.¹ The long-standing alternative according to which the Fathers either had to be epigonal Platonists or anti-philosophical zealots is finally giving way to a m...
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Peeters Publishers
2021
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| Summary: | <p><strong>Extract:</strong> In recent years, Patristic philosophy has attracted an increasing share of scholarly attention.¹ The long-standing alternative according to which the Fathers either had to be epigonal Platonists or anti-philosophical zealots is finally giving way to a more nuanced perception of the genuinely philosophical dimension of Patristic thought in its own right.</p>
<p>Inevitably, much of the research that has been done in this field has been focussed on questions that were of equal interest to Christian and non-Christian thinkers in late antiquity, notably cosmology and psychology but arguably also metaphysics and ethics.² This approach has the advantage of being methodologically manageable,...</p> |
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