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Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom

By David Bradshaw

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521828651, 9780521828659, 9780511265969
Google Books ID
xZPsSG75uCUC
Open Library ID
OL22605883M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1847361 bytes)
Pages
313\313
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Winner of the Journal of the History of Ideas's Morris D. Forkosch prize This book traces the development thought about God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius, and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The resulst is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western churches.

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