Cosmic Order and Divine Power : : Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos / / Johan C. Thom.
The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Chri...
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Place / Publishing House: | Tubingen : : Mohr Siebeck,, 2014. |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Summary: | The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity. |
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ISBN: | 3161564324 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Johan C. Thom. |