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Author Edwards, M. J. (Mark J.)

Title Image, word and God in the early Christian centuries / Mark Edwards
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages)
Series Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity
Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity.
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 Seeing and Hearing God in the Old Testament; 2 Seeing and Hearing God in the New Testament; 3 Word and Image in Classical Greek Philosophy; 4 Philosophers and Sophists of the Early Roman Era; 5 Image, Text and Incarnation in the Second Century; 6 Image, Text and Incarnation in the Third Century; 7 Neoplatonism and the Arts; 8 Image, Text and Incarnation in the Fourth Century; 9 Myth and Text in Proclus; 10 The Christianity of Christian Platonism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book investigates the concept of logos in pagan, Jewish and Christian thought, with a view to elucidating the polyphonic functions which the word acquired when used in theological discourse. Edwards presents a survey of theological applications of the term Logos in Greek, Jewish and Christian thought from Plato to Augustine and Proclus. Bringing together materials which are rarely synthesized in modern study, this book shows how Greek and biblical thought part company in their appraisal of the capacity of reason to grasp the nature of God, and how in consequence verbal revelation plays a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index
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Subject Logos (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Ancient.
Logos (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Incarnation.
Christianity.
Judaism.
Christianity.
Judaism.
BIBLES -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
Christianity
Incarnation
Judaism
Logos (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Ancient
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781409406464
1409406466
9781409473527
140947352X
9781283805148
1283805146