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S'està carregant… Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity: Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity) (edició 2015)de Michael Bland Simmons
Informació de l'obraUniversal Salvation in Late Antiquity: Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity) de Michael Bland Simmons
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. The author argues that Neo-Platonist Porphyry constructed a tripartite system of philosophical salvation to counter the claims of Christianity to be the sole route for universal salvation. The first part was for the ordinary citizen and consisted of obedience to laws and observation of traditional religious rites for the benefit of the city and nation. The second part continued ordinary religious duties but included the study of philosophy and other methods designed to release the mind from attachment to the body. The third was the full immersion in the study of philosophy with the aim of achieving release from the cycle of reincarnation. The third century CE was a time of great turmoil within the Empire and Porphyry hoped his system could become a binding force to stabilize the Empire and stave off the growth of Christianity. This book also contains an explanation of the differences between Porphyry and Iambliclus.
The major thesis of this book is presented in the preface (pp. ix-xix). As mentioned in Augustine’s City of God (X 32), the concept of universal salvation was important for Porphyry, “the last and greatest anti-Christian writer” (p. x), and earlier studies have posited a dual soteriology in his works. According to Simmons, however, while Porphyry at first attempted to offer “two distinct ways for the salvation/cleansing of the soul” (p. xii), later he “modified his soteriological system ... to incorporate another way for the cleansing of the lower soul by means of the virtue of continence” (ibid.). Thus in addition to the way for the uneducated masses and that for the mature Neoplatonic philosopher, there is a “third way for the salvation of the soul” (p. xi), and this tripartite soteriological system of Porphyry as presented in the De philosophia ex oraculis was “the closest that paganism ever came to providing a proactive soteriological universalism” (p. xvii) in the period when Christianity was in the ascendant. Christianity nevertheless prevailed, and “one of the major causes of the triumph of Christianity ... was its unique universalist soteriology”. Thus in the history of the Roman Empire, “Constantinian Universalism, with its salient features of One God, One Emperor, and One Empire, took the politico-religious unification policies of preceding emperors to new heights” (p. xix). Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorials
This title explores the background to the effort of the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry (c.A.D. 232-305) to devise a system of universal salvation as a means of countering the Christian soteriological challenge, and the Christian reactions to this, notably from Eusebius of Caesarea. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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