Title | Un grief antichrétien chez Proclus: l'ignorance en théologie |
Type | Book Section |
Language | French |
Date | 2012 |
Published in | Les chrétiens et l’hellénisme: identités religieuses et culture grecque dans l’Antiquité tardive |
Pages | 161-197 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | Perrot, Arnaud |
Translator(s) |
This text discusses the problematic relationship between Hellenism and Christianity and the processes of Hellenization in Christianity. However, it introduces a dissonance by highlighting the disdainful silence of the last ancient philosophers towards Christian literature and their hatred towards Christianity and the Christian Empire during the period of complete Christianization. The author examines the lack of discussion of identifiable Christian theological positions in the works of informed and erudite philosophers of the 5th and 6th centuries, such as Proclus, Damascius, and Simplicius. The philosophers seem to have had only caricatures of Christians and their theology, displaying their misconceptions and prejudices, considering Christians as ignorant, irrational, and enslaved to their passions. The text introduces the construction of the otherness of Christians and their religion through hostile allusions and venomous comments. The text also presents a philosophical perspective of history in Damascius's work, the Life of Isidore, which describes the three ages of humanity, characterized by three types of souls or parts of the soul and their corresponding political regimes. Damascius's description of the current age of Christianity is negative, portraying it as an age of irrationality and misbehavior, filled with cowardice, avarice, and servility. [introduction] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/pf5XBpu9iL2A9qj |
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Title | Un grief antichrétien chez Proclus: l'ignorance en théologie |
Type | Book Section |
Language | French |
Date | 2012 |
Published in | Les chrétiens et l’hellénisme: identités religieuses et culture grecque dans l’Antiquité tardive |
Pages | 161-197 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | Perrot, Arnaud |
Translator(s) |
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Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/pf5XBpu9iL2A9qj |
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