Contributor
Hampton, Alexander J. B. editor.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Descriptionxv, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Christianity and Platonism / Alexander J.B. Hampton, John Peter Kenney -- The perennial value of Platonism / Lloyd Gerson -- The ideas as thoughts of God / John Dillon, Daniel J. Tolan -- The one and the Trinity / Andrew Radde-Gallwitz -- Creation, begetting, desire, and re-creation in Christian Platonism / Kevin Corrigan -- The concept of theology / Olivier Boulnois -- Participation : Aquinas and his Neoplatonic sources / Rudi A. te Velde -- The Bible and early Christian Platonism / Mark Edwards -- Platonism and Christianity in late Antiquity / John Peter Kenney -- The development of Christian Platonism in the medieval West / Lydia Schumacher -- Christian Platonism in Byzantium / Torstein Tollefsen -- Renaissance Christian Platonism and Ficino / Stephen Gersh -- Northern Renaissance Platonism from Cusa to Böhme / Cecilia Muratori, Mario Meliadò -- Christian Platonism in early modernity / Derek A. Michaud Derek A. Michaud -- The Counter-Enlightenment and Romantic Platonism / Douglas Hedley -- Christian Platonism and modernity / Joshua Levi Ian Gentzke -- Christian Platonism and natural science / Andrew Davison, Jacob Holsinger Sherman -- Christian Platonism, nature and environmental crisis / Alexander J.B. Hampton -- Art and meaning / Richard Viladesau -- Value, dualism and materialism / Charles Taliaferro -- Christian love and Platonic friendship / Catherine Pickstock -- Multiplicity in Earth and Heaven / Stephen Clark.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Anyone wishing to understand the Christian tradition deeply must consider the central, formative role of Platonism. At various times Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with a fundamental intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternately, at other times, it has been considered a compromising influence, conflicting with the faith's revelatory foundations and distorting its inherent message. In both the positive and negative cases, the central importance of Platonism, as a force which Christianity defined itself by and against, is clear. Equally, this process of influence is not unidirectional."-- Provided by publisher.
