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Platonic Theories of Prayer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (238 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004309005
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Platonic Theories of PrayerDDC classification:
  • 204.3
LOC classification:
  • B56 .P538 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction (Dillon and Timotin) -- ‎The Platonic Philosopher at Prayer (Dillon) -- ‎Modes of Prayer in the Hellenic Tradition (Dorival) -- ‎Philo on Prayer as Devotional Study (Luz) -- ‎Prayer in Maximus of Tyre (O'Brien) -- ‎Awaiting the Sun: A Plotinian Form of Contemplative Prayer (Wakoff) -- ‎Porphyry on Prayer (Timotin) -- ‎Prayer in Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles (Brisson) -- ‎Cosmic Etiology and Demiurgic Mimesis in Proclus' Account of Prayer (Layne) -- ‎The Transmission of Fire: Proclus' Theurgical Prayers (Redondo) -- ‎Damascius and Dionysius on Prayer and Silence (Vlad) -- ‎Index Locorum -- ‎Index Nominum -- ‎Index Rerum.
Summary: Platonic Theories of Prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. Composed by a panel of distinguished scholars, they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period.
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Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction (Dillon and Timotin) -- ‎The Platonic Philosopher at Prayer (Dillon) -- ‎Modes of Prayer in the Hellenic Tradition (Dorival) -- ‎Philo on Prayer as Devotional Study (Luz) -- ‎Prayer in Maximus of Tyre (O'Brien) -- ‎Awaiting the Sun: A Plotinian Form of Contemplative Prayer (Wakoff) -- ‎Porphyry on Prayer (Timotin) -- ‎Prayer in Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles (Brisson) -- ‎Cosmic Etiology and Demiurgic Mimesis in Proclus' Account of Prayer (Layne) -- ‎The Transmission of Fire: Proclus' Theurgical Prayers (Redondo) -- ‎Damascius and Dionysius on Prayer and Silence (Vlad) -- ‎Index Locorum -- ‎Index Nominum -- ‎Index Rerum.

Platonic Theories of Prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. Composed by a panel of distinguished scholars, they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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