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From Plato to Christ : how Platonic thought shaped the Christian faith / Louis Markos.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, and imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780830853052
  • 0830853057
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Plato to ChristDDC classification:
  • 230.01 23
LOC classification:
  • BR100 .M276 2021
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
PART I. Plato's pre-Christian Vision -- 1. Socrates, the Sophists, and the Presocratics -- 2. Republic -- 3. The myths: part I -- 4. The myths: part II -- 5. Laws -- 6. Timaeus -- PART II. Plato's Christian Legacy -- 7. The rising path -- 8. Origen's musings -- 9. Plato in the East : the three Gregorys -- 10. Plato in the West : Augustine, Boethius, and Dante -- 11. From Renaissance to Romanticism : Erasmus, Descartes, and Coleridge -- 12. C. S. Lewis's Christian Platonism -- Conclusion. Plato the sub-creator.
Summary: "Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of the ancient Greek philosophy of Plato. To help us understand the influence of Platonic thought on the Christian faith, Louis Markos offers careful readings of some of Plato's best-known texts and then traces the ways that his work shaped some of Christianity's most beloved theologians"-- Provided by publisher.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2706499

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. Plato's pre-Christian Vision -- 1. Socrates, the Sophists, and the Presocratics -- 2. Republic -- 3. The myths: part I -- 4. The myths: part II -- 5. Laws -- 6. Timaeus -- PART II. Plato's Christian Legacy -- 7. The rising path -- 8. Origen's musings -- 9. Plato in the East : the three Gregorys -- 10. Plato in the West : Augustine, Boethius, and Dante -- 11. From Renaissance to Romanticism : Erasmus, Descartes, and Coleridge -- 12. C. S. Lewis's Christian Platonism -- Conclusion. Plato the sub-creator.

"Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of the ancient Greek philosophy of Plato. To help us understand the influence of Platonic thought on the Christian faith, Louis Markos offers careful readings of some of Plato's best-known texts and then traces the ways that his work shaped some of Christianity's most beloved theologians"-- Provided by publisher.

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