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Platonic Theories of Prayer

By John M. Dillon , Andrei Timotin

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2016
ISBN
9004308725, 9789004308725
ISSN
1871-188X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2436431 bytes)
Series
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 19
Pages
x+228\239
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-03-08 08:51:38
Philosophy Religious Studies Religion Spirituality

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.

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