Rethinking the Gods : Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period

Name: Rethinking the Gods
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107012035
Price: 17800 KES
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ISBN: 9781107012035

by Peter van Nuffelen

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Format Hardback

Book Series Greek Culture in the Roman World

ISBN-10 1107012031

ISBN-13 9781107012035

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 1st, 2011

Print length 282 Pages

Weight 586 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 16.00 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 Philosophy of religion Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Philosophy of religion

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From the first century BC onwards religion was embraced as a source of philosophical knowledge. This book shows how that approach increased the authority of religion and how it further developed in Christianity, thus contributing to current debates about the origins of modern ideas about religion.

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.

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