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Platonic theories of prayer / edited by John Dillon, Andrei Timotin.
- Title
- Platonic theories of prayer / edited by John Dillon, Andrei Timotin.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- ix, 228 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Platonic theories of prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. The volume originates from a panel on the topic held at the 2013 ISNS meeting in Cardiff, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers. Together they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period. The concept of prayer is shown to include not just formal petitionary or encomiastic prayer, but also theurgical practices and various states of meditation and ecstasy practised by such major figures as Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus, Damascius or Dionysius the Areopagite."--
- Series Statement
- Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; volume 19
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition v. 19.
- Subject
- Note
- "[B]ased on a set of papers delivered originally for a panel on Prayer at the annual meeting of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies in Cardiff in June 2013...."--Page 1.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Platonic Philosopher at Prayer / John Dillon -- Modes of Prayer in the Hellenic Tradition / Gilles Dorival -- Philo on Prayer as Devotional Study / Menahem Luz -- Prayer in Maximus of Tyre / Carl O'Brien -- Awaiting the Sun : A Plotinian Form of Contemplative Prayer / Michael Wakoff -- Porphyry on Prayer : Platonic Tradition and Religious Trends in the Third Century / Andrei Timotin -- Prayer in Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles : Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus / Luc Brisson -- Cosmic Etiology and Demiurgic Mimesis in Proclus' Account of Prayer / Danielle A. Layne -- The Transmission of Fire : Proclus' Theurgical Prayers / José M. Redondo -- Damascius and Dionysius on Prayer and Silence / Marilena Vlad.
- ISBN
- 9789004308725
- 9004308725
- LCCN
- ^^2015040828
- OCLC
- 934617239
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library