Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism
(Part of the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series)
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In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek?" Four hundred years later, a Christian emperor had ended the public teaching of subversive Platonic thought. When and how did this philosophical rupture occur? Dylan M. Burns argues that the fundamental break occurred in Rome, ca. 263, in the circle of the great mystic Plotinus,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812245792
ISBN13:9780812245790
Release Date:February 2014
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.8"
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