[PDF.34hi] The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys

The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys

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 | #541834 in Books |  2007-03-08 |  2007-03-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.40 x.80 x8.40l,.70 | File type: PDF | 244 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Inspired on Nicene Orthodoxy|By JC|Andrew Louth writes well and nicely contextualises both the underlying platonic influences of Christianity, but also the transformative nature of the Christian tradition's use of platonism & pays particular attention to the Eastern/mystical lens of Christian praxis and its rational framework. I felt he treated both Plotinus & Origen fairly &|.com |One reviewer of this book wrote, "it is not often that we chance to meet with a book so rich that it would be impossible to discuss it in full without writing another one at least as long." Originally given as a series of lectures in the Faculty of Theolo

Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology. Andrew Louth aims to redress the balance. Recognizing that the intellectual form of this tradition was decisively influenced by Platonic ideas of the soul's relationship to God, Louth begins with an examination of Plato and Platonism. The discussion of the Fathers which follows shows how the mystical tradition is at the ...

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