Publication

2016 - Brill Academic Pub, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC204/.3
  • LCCB56 .P53 2016
  • LCCB56
and 1 more
  • LCCB56.P53 2016

Description

"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 the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period. The concept of prayer is shown to include not just formal petitionary or encomiastic prayer, but also theurgical practices and various states of meditation and ecstasy practised by such major figures as Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus, Damascius or Dionysius the Areopagite."--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition -- VOLUME 19

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