Platonic theories of prayer / / edited by John Dillon, Andrei Timotin ; contributors, Luc Brisson [and nine others].
Platonic Theories of Prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. The volume originates from a panel on the topic held at the 2013 ISNS meeting in Cardiff, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers. Together they offer a comprehensive view of t...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, Volume 19 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ;
Volume 19. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter / John Dillon and Andrei Timotin
- Introduction / John Dillon and Andrei Timotin
- The Platonic Philosopher at Prayer / John Dillon
- Modes of Prayer in the Hellenic Tradition / Gilles Dorival
- Philo on Prayer as Devotional Study / Menahem Luz
- Prayer in Maximus of Tyre / Carl O’Brien
- Awaiting the Sun: A Plotinian Form of Contemplative Prayer / Michael Wakoff
- Porphyry on Prayer / Andrei Timotin
- Prayer in Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles / Luc Brisson
- Cosmic Etiology and Demiurgic Mimesis in Proclus’ Account of Prayer / Danielle A. Layne
- The Transmission of Fire: Proclus’ Theurgical Prayers / José Manuel Redondo
- Damascius and Dionysius on Prayer and Silence / Marilena Vlad
- Indexes / John Dillon and Andrei Timotin.