RETHINKING THE GODS by Prof. Dr. Peter van Nuffelen ( 9781107012035 )

Item Details

Title:

RETHINKING THE GODS
PHILOSOPHICAL READINGS OF RELIGION IN THE POST-HELLENISTIC PERIOD

By:

Prof. Dr. Peter van Nuffelen

Format:

Hardback

List price:

£79.00

Our price:

£71.10

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£7.90

ISBN 10:

1107012031

ISBN 13:

9781107012035

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 December, 2011

Series:

Greek Culture in the Roman World

Pages:

282

Description:

Studies the dominant philosophical reflections on religion and the pantheon in the Post-Hellenistic period.

Synopsis:

Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards the traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book studies that change, not from the usual perspective of the history of religion, but as part of the wider tendency of Post-Hellenistic philosophy to open up to external, non-philosophical sources of knowledge and authority. It situates two key themes, ancient wisdom and cosmic hierarchy, in the context of Post-Hellenistic philosophy and traces their reconfigurations in contemporary literature and in the polemic between Jews, Christians and pagans. Overall, Post-Hellenistic philosophy displayed a relatively high degree of unity in its ideas on religion, which should not be reduced to a preparation for Neoplatonism.

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

EPISCOPAL ELECTIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY

EPISCOPAL ELECTIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY (HB)

ONE GOD (HB)

OROSIUS AND THE RHETORIC OF HISTORY (HB)

STUDIES ON THE MELITIAN SCHISM IN EGYPT (AD 306-335) (HB)