Longing for Perfection in Late Antiquity
Studies on Journeys between Ideal and Reality in Pagan and Christian Literature
Series: Ancient Philosophy & Religion; 11;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 22 November 2023
- ISBN 9789004681125
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages534 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1123 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this volume, an international group of scholars examines how the ideal of perfection was conceived and pursued in Late Antiquity, both within philosophical circles and within Christianity.
MoreLong description:
In the post-Enlightenment world, philosophy and religion have come to occupy different, even opposed, domains. But how were they related before this? What were the commonalities and dissimilarities between them? Did they already contain the seeds of their later division ? or do they still share enough in common to allow meaningful conversation between them?
This new Brill series ?Ancient Philosophy & Religion? provides an interdisciplinary platform for monographs, edited volumes and commentaries on this issue. It is edited by two leading scholars in the fields it brings together, George Boys-Stones (Ancient Philosophy) and George van Kooten (New Testament Studies), and is supported by an editorial board whose members are known for their work in the area. It invites scholars of ancient philosophy, Classics, early Judaism, ancient Judaism, New Testament & early Christianity, and all other relevant fields, to showcase their research on ancient philosophy and religion and to contribute to the debate.
The series? subject matter is symbolized by its icon, used by courtesy and permission of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. It represents a dialogue between philosophers, as shown on one of the reliefs of the funeral sacrificial table (mensa) from the ?House of Proclus? on the Southern slope of the Acropolis at Athens, excavated in 1955. Dating from 350-325 BC, the reliefs of the mensa depict, after the lamentation and the farewell, the posthumous encounter of the deceased with the philosophers (1950 NAM 90).
The editors very much welcome proposals for monographs, edited volumes and even commentaries on relevant texts.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Figures and Table
1 Introduction
Johan Leemans, Geert Roskam and Peter Van Deun
Part 1: Human Goal and Divine Perfection in Plato and the Platonist Tradition
2 Assimilation to God and Practical Life from Plato to Plotinus
Paolo Torri
3 The God
-like Plotinus and Proclus
Two Neoplatonic Patterns of Perfection
Robbert M. van den Berg
4 One Ideal, Various Paths to Perfection
?Becoming like God? in Proclus? Commentary on the First Alcibiades
Thibaut Lejeune
5 More than Perfect?
The Distinction between ?Completely Perfect? (????????) and ?More than Perfect? (???????????) in Proclus? Description of the Intelligible Gods
Arthur Oosthout
Part 2: Human Goal and Divine Perfection in Early Christian Thought
7 Christian versus Pagan Perfection
George Karamanolis
7 The Reader, the Bible, and the Path to Perfection
Philo, Clement & Origen
Marco Rizzi
8 Love?s Early Christian Lives
Schemata and Scenarios of Love?s Perfecting Work in Representative Greek Patristic and Monastic Writers
Paul M. Blowers
9 On the Concept of ?Perfection? in Maximus Confessor?s Genuine Capita Collections (ThOec, Car, CapXV, CapX)
A Lexical Survey
Pietro D?Agostino
Part 3: Models of Perfection: Greek and Christian
10 Human Perfection in Plutarch
Finding the Right Balance between Philosophy and Politics in the Comparison of Aristeides and Cato Maior
Laurens van der Wiel
11 Dealing with Models and Virtue
Plutarchean Synkriseis and Cappadocian Typology
Thomas Valgaeren
12 Perfect Imitators of Christ?
Saints and Martyrs as Models of (Im
-)Perfection
Peter Gemeinhardt
Part 4: Pursuits of Perfection: Greek and Christian
13 Nunc Est Sudandum
Training and Exercises in Stoicism and Epicureanism
Geert Roskam
14 Galen on Human Perfection and Enhancement
Morality, Medicine, Cosmology
Teun Tieleman
15 Perfection in the Two Ways Tradition
Aspirational or Attainable?
Julien C. H. Smith
16 A Thousand Pains and a Thousand Crowns
Perfection in the Homiletic Tradition
Olympe De Backer and Johan Leemans
17 The Road to Perfection in the Apocalypse of Paul
Jan N. Bremmer
18 Perfection ? a Main (Educational) Topic in John Cassian?s Conferences?
Dorothee Schenk
19 ?The Perfect Imperfect Perfection of the Perfects?
Longing for Perfection in the Ladder of John Sinaites
Maxim Venetskov
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