TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,Mark Julian
TI  - Image, word and God in the early Christian centuries
T2  - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity
SN  - 9781409406464
AV  - B187.L6 
U1  - 220.13 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Logos (Philosophy)
KW  - Philosophy, Ancient
KW  - Logos (Christian theology)
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Incarnation
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Logos (Philosophie)
KW  - Philosophie ancienne
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - aat
KW  - BIBLES
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Reference
KW  - Handbooks
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index; Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 Seeing and Hearing God in the Old Testament; 2 Seeing and Hearing God in the New Testament; 3 Word and Image in Classical Greek Philosophy; 4 Philosophers and Sophists of the Early Roman Era; 5 Image, Text and Incarnation in the Second Century; 6 Image, Text and Incarnation in the Third Century; 7 Neoplatonism and the Arts; 8 Image, Text and Incarnation in the Fourth Century; 9 Myth and Text in Proclus; 10 The Christianity of Christian Platonism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
N2  - This book investigates the concept of logos in pagan, Jewish and Christian thought, with a view to elucidating the polyphonic functions which the word acquired when used in theological discourse. Edwards presents a survey of theological applications of the term Logos in Greek, Jewish and Christian thought from Plato to Augustine and Proclus. Bringing together materials which are rarely synthesized in modern study, this book shows how Greek and biblical thought part company in their appraisal of the capacity of reason to grasp the nature of God, and how in consequence verbal revelation plays a
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