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Did God Care? : Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (419 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004432994
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Did God Care?DDC classification:
  • 214.8
LOC classification:
  • B105.D47 .B876 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Author's Note on Translations and References -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Part 1. Providence -- ‎Chapter 1. The Pronoia Problem(s) -- ‎1. Introduction: Did the Gods Care? -- ‎2. The First 'Likely Stories' about Providence: From the Presocratics to Plato -- ‎3. Epicurus, Aristotle, and (Pseudo-)Aristotle: "What Difference Is There …?" -- ‎4. "Call Him Providence. You Will Still Be Right": The Stoa on God -- ‎5. "What Do I Care? For I Have Done My Part": The Stoa on Fate and Determinism -- ‎6. Three Providences! Pseudo-Plutarch and the Doctrine of 'Conditional Fate' -- ‎7. Conclusions: Aesop and Xanthus in the Weeds -- ‎Chapter 2. Which God Cares for You and Me? -- ‎1. Introduction: The Personal God of Early Christianity? -- ‎2. Philosophers' Personal Gods: Daimonic Intervention in the Stoa and Plutarch -- ‎3. Fortune's Favorites: Providence in Early Roman Historians -- ‎4. A Different God, Present and Absent in Hellenistic Jewish Literature -- ‎5. "So You Do Not Neglect the Nation of the Jews after All!": Philo of Alexandria -- ‎6. Flavius Josephus: Providential History is Jewish History -- ‎7. Prayer or Care?-Justin Martyr and Trypho the Jew 'Investigate the Deity' -- ‎8. Conclusions: A God Personal Enough for a Stoic -- ‎Part 2. Dualism -- ‎Chapter 3. The Other Gods -- ‎1. Introduction: Dualism in Doubt -- ‎2. Matter, Evil, and Dualism from the Pythagoreans to a Neo-Pythagorean -- ‎3. 'Mitigated Dualism' and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature -- ‎4. Athenagoras on "the Archon over Matter and Material Things" -- ‎5. Living Idols and Questions That Deserve Punishment according to Clement of Alexandria -- ‎6. "Nothing Happens without God": Origen on Evil, Demons, and Other Absences -- ‎7. Marcion asks, "Doth God Clothe the Grass?" -- ‎8. Conclusions: 'Religious Dualism' in Roman Philosophy.
‎Chapter 4. Did God Care for Creation? -- ‎1. Introduction: Gnostics without 'Gnosticism'? -- ‎2. No Idle Hands: The Creation-Theology of Irenaeus of Lyons -- ‎3. Archons and Providences at Work in Creation: 'On the Origin of the World' and the 'Apocryphon of John' -- ‎4. "These Senseless Men Claim That They Ascend above the Creator …" -- ‎5. "The Will of the Father" and the 'Tripartite Tractate' -- ‎6. Conclusions: The Gnostics on Providence, Creation, and 'Gnosticism' -- ‎Part 3. Will -- ‎Chapter 5. Did God Know All Along? -- ‎1. Introduction: Origen 'On Fate' (Philocalia 23) -- ‎2. Origen's Digression on Divine Omniscience and Future Causes in 'On Fate' -- ‎3. Chrysippus and Cicero on "Things That Are Simple, Others Complex": The Oracle to Laius -- ‎4. Upholding the Appearance of Civic Piety: Alexander of Aphrodisias and Alcinous Respond to the 'Oracle to Laius' -- ‎5. Origen's Oracles to Laius-and David, against Marcion -- ‎6. Conclusions: 'The Book of Heaven' -- ‎Chapter 6. What We Choose Now -- ‎1. Introduction: Where Does Free Will Emerge in Ancient Philosophy? -- ‎2. Aristotle on Action and Pseudo-Plutarch on Determinism -- ‎3. "All These Things Depend on One's Thinking": Autonomy and Fatalism in the 'Book of the Laws of the Countries' -- ‎4. "Say Anything Rather Than Call Providence Bad": Clement of Alexandria against Basilides the False -- ‎5. Origen 'On Free Will' (Princ. 3.1), "Older Causes," and Gnostic Determinism -- ‎6. Conclusions: Birth, Death, and Eden -- ‎Chapter 7. How God Cares -- ‎1. Introduction: The One's Providence, Will, and Omniscience -- ‎2. "Neither Actuality nor Thought before It": Plotinus (Enn. 6. 7-8 [38-39]) and the 'Tripartite Tractate' on the Knowledge and Will of the Good -- ‎3. Plotinus 'On Providence' (Enn. 3.2-3 [47-48]): Another Engagement with the 'Tripartite Tractate'?.
‎4. The "Unspeakable First Thought" according to Porphyry and the Anonymous Commentary on Plato's 'Parmenides' -- ‎5. 'First Thought' and Providence in the 'Platonizing' Sethian Treatises of Nag Hammadi -- ‎6. Conclusions: A Christianizing Turn in Platonist Conceptions of Divine Foreknowledge -- ‎Conclusions -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.
Summary: In Did God Care? Dylan Burns offers the first comprehensive survey of providence (pronoia) in ancient philosophy, from Plato to Plotinus, that takes into full account the importance and innovations of early Christian thinkers, including Coptic Gnostic and Syriac sources.
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Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Author's Note on Translations and References -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Part 1. Providence -- ‎Chapter 1. The Pronoia Problem(s) -- ‎1. Introduction: Did the Gods Care? -- ‎2. The First 'Likely Stories' about Providence: From the Presocratics to Plato -- ‎3. Epicurus, Aristotle, and (Pseudo-)Aristotle: "What Difference Is There …?" -- ‎4. "Call Him Providence. You Will Still Be Right": The Stoa on God -- ‎5. "What Do I Care? For I Have Done My Part": The Stoa on Fate and Determinism -- ‎6. Three Providences! Pseudo-Plutarch and the Doctrine of 'Conditional Fate' -- ‎7. Conclusions: Aesop and Xanthus in the Weeds -- ‎Chapter 2. Which God Cares for You and Me? -- ‎1. Introduction: The Personal God of Early Christianity? -- ‎2. Philosophers' Personal Gods: Daimonic Intervention in the Stoa and Plutarch -- ‎3. Fortune's Favorites: Providence in Early Roman Historians -- ‎4. A Different God, Present and Absent in Hellenistic Jewish Literature -- ‎5. "So You Do Not Neglect the Nation of the Jews after All!": Philo of Alexandria -- ‎6. Flavius Josephus: Providential History is Jewish History -- ‎7. Prayer or Care?-Justin Martyr and Trypho the Jew 'Investigate the Deity' -- ‎8. Conclusions: A God Personal Enough for a Stoic -- ‎Part 2. Dualism -- ‎Chapter 3. The Other Gods -- ‎1. Introduction: Dualism in Doubt -- ‎2. Matter, Evil, and Dualism from the Pythagoreans to a Neo-Pythagorean -- ‎3. 'Mitigated Dualism' and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature -- ‎4. Athenagoras on "the Archon over Matter and Material Things" -- ‎5. Living Idols and Questions That Deserve Punishment according to Clement of Alexandria -- ‎6. "Nothing Happens without God": Origen on Evil, Demons, and Other Absences -- ‎7. Marcion asks, "Doth God Clothe the Grass?" -- ‎8. Conclusions: 'Religious Dualism' in Roman Philosophy.

‎Chapter 4. Did God Care for Creation? -- ‎1. Introduction: Gnostics without 'Gnosticism'? -- ‎2. No Idle Hands: The Creation-Theology of Irenaeus of Lyons -- ‎3. Archons and Providences at Work in Creation: 'On the Origin of the World' and the 'Apocryphon of John' -- ‎4. "These Senseless Men Claim That They Ascend above the Creator …" -- ‎5. "The Will of the Father" and the 'Tripartite Tractate' -- ‎6. Conclusions: The Gnostics on Providence, Creation, and 'Gnosticism' -- ‎Part 3. Will -- ‎Chapter 5. Did God Know All Along? -- ‎1. Introduction: Origen 'On Fate' (Philocalia 23) -- ‎2. Origen's Digression on Divine Omniscience and Future Causes in 'On Fate' -- ‎3. Chrysippus and Cicero on "Things That Are Simple, Others Complex": The Oracle to Laius -- ‎4. Upholding the Appearance of Civic Piety: Alexander of Aphrodisias and Alcinous Respond to the 'Oracle to Laius' -- ‎5. Origen's Oracles to Laius-and David, against Marcion -- ‎6. Conclusions: 'The Book of Heaven' -- ‎Chapter 6. What We Choose Now -- ‎1. Introduction: Where Does Free Will Emerge in Ancient Philosophy? -- ‎2. Aristotle on Action and Pseudo-Plutarch on Determinism -- ‎3. "All These Things Depend on One's Thinking": Autonomy and Fatalism in the 'Book of the Laws of the Countries' -- ‎4. "Say Anything Rather Than Call Providence Bad": Clement of Alexandria against Basilides the False -- ‎5. Origen 'On Free Will' (Princ. 3.1), "Older Causes," and Gnostic Determinism -- ‎6. Conclusions: Birth, Death, and Eden -- ‎Chapter 7. How God Cares -- ‎1. Introduction: The One's Providence, Will, and Omniscience -- ‎2. "Neither Actuality nor Thought before It": Plotinus (Enn. 6. 7-8 [38-39]) and the 'Tripartite Tractate' on the Knowledge and Will of the Good -- ‎3. Plotinus 'On Providence' (Enn. 3.2-3 [47-48]): Another Engagement with the 'Tripartite Tractate'?.

‎4. The "Unspeakable First Thought" according to Porphyry and the Anonymous Commentary on Plato's 'Parmenides' -- ‎5. 'First Thought' and Providence in the 'Platonizing' Sethian Treatises of Nag Hammadi -- ‎6. Conclusions: A Christianizing Turn in Platonist Conceptions of Divine Foreknowledge -- ‎Conclusions -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.

In Did God Care? Dylan Burns offers the first comprehensive survey of providence (pronoia) in ancient philosophy, from Plato to Plotinus, that takes into full account the importance and innovations of early Christian thinkers, including Coptic Gnostic and Syriac sources.

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