Pettis Seeing the God

Ways of Envisioning the Divine in Ancient Mediterranean Religion
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3488-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought

"When people prayed, they expected their gods to come," wrote Robin Lane Fox, providing the impetus for this volume of collected essays exploring the concept of how the ancients “envisioned” the deities within various ancient religious traditions. The perspectives of Judaism, Gnosticism, Syriac Christianity, Byzantium, and Classical Greco-Roman religion and philosophy are considered. Specific emphasis is given to phenomena such as dreams, visions, and initiatory rites mediating the divine encounter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pettis, Jeffrey B.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Calaway, Jared

French, Todd

Lillie, Celene

McGuckin, John A.

Pettis, Jeffrey B.

Trostyanskiy, Sergey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Preface - Jeffrey B. Pettis (page 7)
- Introduction - Jeffrey B. Pettis (page 9)
- Seeing the God in the Greco-Roman World - Jeffrey B. Pettis (page 21)
- Visions and Violence: Seeing God in the Nag Hammadi Codices - Celene Lillie (page 45)
- Seeing the Divine in Platonism; Plato and Plotinus - Sergey Trostyanskiy (page 69)
- Seeing the God and Early Christian Literature - John A. McGuckin and Jeff Pettis (page 107)
- The Ambivalences of Seeing in the Gospel Narratives - John A. McGuckin (page 107)
- Seeing the God and Paul - Jeffrey B. Pettis (page 131)
- To See God and Live in Late Antique Judaism - Jared C. Calaway (page 147)
- Seeing the God in the Syriac Tradition - Todd French (page 189)
- Seeing Divine Things in Byzantine Christianity - John A. McGuckin (page 225)