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This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine. It examines how the same philosophical questions were approached by Christian and pagan thinkers; the philosophical element in Christian doctrines; the interaction of particular philosophies with Christian thought; and the constructive use of existing philosophies by all Christian thinkers of late antiquity. While most studies of ancient Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine make some reference to the philosophic background, this is often of an anecdotal character, and does not enable th...
Origen has been always studied as a theologian and too much credit has been given to Eusebius’ implausible hagiography of him. This book explores who Origen really was, by pondering into his philosophical background, which determines his theological exposition implicitly, yet decisively. For this background to come to light, it took a ground-breaking exposition of Anaxagoras’ philosophy and its legacy to Classical and Late Antiquity (Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Origen, Neoplatonism), assessing critically Aristotle’s distorted representation of Anaxagoras. Origen, formerly a Greek philosopher of note, whom Proclus styled an anti-Platonist, is placed in the history of philosophy for the fi...
One of America’s most prolific writers of short stories, John O’Hara helped develop ‘The New Yorker’ magazine story style. His large body of works represent a sprawling social history of upwardly mobile Americans from the 1920s through to the 1960s. A best-selling novelist by the age of thirty, he penned such modern masterpieces as ‘Appointment in Samarra’ and ‘BUtterfield 8’. His work won the admiration of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Updike. Today, he is recognised by many as one of the most under-appreciated American writers of the twentieth century. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents O’Hara’s complete fictional works, with ...