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Homilien zum Hexaemeron.
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ISBN: 3050020024 9783050020020 Year: 1997 Volume: 2 Publisher: Berlin Akademie-Verlag


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The demiurge in ancient thought : secondary gods and divine mediators
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ISBN: 9781107075368 110707536X 9781107428096 1107428092 9781139871723 1316255794 1316236870 1316250113 1316252000 1316253899 1316234983 1316248224 1139871722 9781316248225 9781316234983 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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How was the world generated and how does matter continue to be ordered so that the world can continue functioning? Questions like these have existed as long as humanity has been capable of rational thought. In antiquity, Plato's Timaeus introduced the concept of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god, to answer them. This lucid and wide-ranging book argues that the concept of the Demiurge was highly influential on the many discussions operating in Middle Platonist, Gnostic, Hermetic and Christian contexts in the first three centuries AD. It explores key metaphysical problems such as the origin of evil, the relationship between matter and the First Principle and the deployment of ever-increasing numbers of secondary deities to insulate the First Principle from the sensible world. It also focuses on the decreasing importance of demiurgy in Neoplatonism, with its postulation of procession and return.

Creation and Recreation
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ISBN: 0802064221 1442664703 9781442664708 Year: 1980 Publisher: Toronto

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Originally delivered as the 1980 Larkin-Stuart Lectures, this book provides an intriguing and provocative insight into the notion of creation and of the relationship in creativity between the human and the divine.


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Contextualizing practical knowledge in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 3631788916 3631780443 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group

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The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas between 1400 and 1700. In this book, the 1) origin or creation, 2) transmission or dissemination, and 3) use or consumption are key subjects for understanding the place of practical knowledge in early modern European society. After a historiographical and theoretical approach, this book applies Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome metaphor to art technological literature. The first part ends with a study about medical practitioners and mediators who disseminate practical knowledge through the printing press. The second part of the book is entirely dedicated to the bookletA Very Proper Treatise (1573), using a microhistory approach to study it.


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Causation and creation in late antiquity
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ISBN: 9781107061538 1107061539 9781107447974 9781107695320 1107695325 1316255573 131623665X 1316234762 1316249891 1316253678 1107447976 1316247996 1316251780 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Written by a group of leading scholars, this unique collection of essays investigates the views of both pagan and Christian philosophers on causation and the creation of the cosmos. Structured in two parts, the volume first looks at divine agency and how late antique thinkers, including the Stoics, Plotinus, Porphyry, Simplicius, Philoponus and Gregory of Nyssa, tackled questions such as: is the cosmos eternal? Did it come from nothing or from something pre-existing? How was it caused to come into existence? Is it material or immaterial? The second part looks at questions concerning human agency and responsibility, including the problem of evil and the nature of will, considering thinkers such as Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus and Augustine. Highlighting some of the most important and interesting aspects of these philosophical debates, the volume will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of philosophy, classics, theology and ancient history.


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Hidden truths from Eden : esoteric readings of Genesis 1-3
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ISBN: 9781628370126 9781628370140 1628370149 1628370122 9781628370133 Year: 2014 Volume: 76 Publisher: Atlanta SBL Press

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"This unique volume features case studies and examples of diverse esoteric interpretive approaches and methodologies focusing on Genesis 1-3 and covering different periods from early Christian discourse through Zoharic, Kabbalistic and alchemical literature to modern and post-postmodern approaches"--

The ground and grammar of theology
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ISBN: 0813908191 Year: 1980 Volume: 1978-79 Publisher: Charlottesville University press of Virginia

The metaphysics of creation : Aquinas's natural theology in Summa contra gentiles II
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ISBN: 0198237871 0199246548 0191597872 1282051881 9786612051883 0191519294 9780191519291 9780199246540 9780198237877 9780191597879 6612051884 9781282051881 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,

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Norman Kretzmann expounds and criticises Aquinas' theology of creation, which is natural (or philosophical) in that Aquinas developed it without depending on the data of Scripture.

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