Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority : : Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E. / / Heidi Marx-Wolf.
The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not they were helpful or ha...
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Marx-Wolf, Heidi, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority : Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E. / Heidi Marx-Wolf. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015] ©2016 1 online resource (216 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. How to Feed a Daemon: Third-Century Philosophers on Blood Sacrifice -- Chapter 2. Everything in Its Right Place: Spiritual Taxonomy in Third-Century Platonism -- Chapter 3. The Missing Link: Third-Century Platonists and "Gnostics" on Daemons and Other Spirits -- Chapter 4. High Priests of the Highest God: Third-Century Platonists as Ritual Experts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not they were helpful or harmful under specific circumstances determined if and what virtues were attributed to them. That all changed in the third century C.E., when a handful of Platonist philosophers-Plotinus, Origen, Porphyry, and Iamblichus-began to produce competing systematic discourses that ordered the realm of spirits in moral and ontological terms.In Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority, Heidi Marx-Wolf recounts how these Platonist philosophers organized the spirit world into hierarchies, or "spiritual taxonomies," positioning themselves as the high priests of the highest gods in the process. By establishing themselves as experts on sacred, ritual, and doctrinal matters, they were able to fortify their authority, prestige, and reputation. The Platonists were not alone in this enterprise, and it brought them into competition with rivals to their new authority: priests of traditional polytheistic religions and gnostics. Members of these rival groups were also involved in identifying and ordering the realm of spirits and in providing the ritual means for dealing with that realm. Using her lens of spiritual taxonomy to look at these various groups in tandem, Marx-Wolf demonstrates that Platonist philosophers, Christian and non-Christian priests, and gnostics were more interconnected socially, educationally, and intellectually than previously recognized. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Demonology History. Gnosticism History. Neoplatonism History. Spirits History of doctrines. RELIGION / Christianity / History. bisacsh Religion. Religious Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theology, Relig. Studies, Jewish Studies 2016 9783110485394 ZDB-23-DGF Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110665918 print 9780812247893 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292442 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812292442 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812292442.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. How to Feed a Daemon: Third-Century Philosophers on Blood Sacrifice -- Chapter 2. Everything in Its Right Place: Spiritual Taxonomy in Third-Century Platonism -- Chapter 3. The Missing Link: Third-Century Platonists and "Gnostics" on Daemons and Other Spirits -- Chapter 4. High Priests of the Highest God: Third-Century Platonists as Ritual Experts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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