Platonic Theories of Prayer.
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- 9789004309005
- 204.3
- B56 .P538 2016
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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