TY - BOOK AU - Hampton,Alexander J.B. AU - Kenney,John Peter TI - Christian Platonism: a history SN - 9781108491983 U1 - 230.01 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Platonismo KW - Aspetti cristiani KW - sbaa N1 - Bibliografia N2 - "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" ER -