Michael Bland Simmons

Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity

Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate

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Produktbeschreibung

A new study of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780190202392
• ISBN-10: 0190202394
• Artikelnr.: 47972021

Autorenporträt

Michael Bland Simmons is Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, Auburn University Montgomery and Archbishop, the Anglican Church of the Americas.

Inhaltsangabe

* Dedication and Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* Preface
* PART I: PORPHYRY AND THE QUEST FOR A PAGAN COUNTERPART TO CHRISTIAN
UNIVERSALISM
* Chapter I Porphyry of Tyre: Life and Historical Contexts
* Chapter II Contextualizing a Porphyrian Soteriology
* Chapter III De Philosophia ex oraculis: Soteriological Structure and
Contents
* Chapter IV The Contra Christianos in the Context of Universalism
* Chapter V Eusebius and Porphyry: The Theophany
* PART II: THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT OF UNIVERSALISM
* Chapter VI The Meaning of Salvation in A Greco-Roman Milieu
* Chapter VII Philosophia ex oraculis: A Tripartite Universalism
* Chapter VIII Porphyry and Iamblichus
* Chapter IX Eschatological Salvation
* Chapter X Historical Context: Caracalla to Constantine
* Chapter XI Religious Universalism: Paganism and Christianity
* Chapter XII Conclusions
* Appendices I-VIII
* Notes
* Bibliography: Secondary Sources
* Bibliography: Primary Sources
* Index