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By the Same Word : Creation and Salvation in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity.
Middle Platonism explained how a transcendent principle could relate to the material world by positing an intermediary, modeled after the Stoic active cause, that mediated the supreme principles influence to the world while preserving its transcendence. Having similar concerns as Middle Platonism, H...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2009.
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| Colección: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft ;
145 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Middle Platonism explained how a transcendent principle could relate to the material world by positing an intermediary, modeled after the Stoic active cause, that mediated the supreme principles influence to the world while preserving its transcendence. Having similar concerns as Middle Platonism, Hellenistic Jewish sapientialism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism appropriated this intermediary doctrine as a means for understanding their relationship to God and to the cosmos. However, these traditions vary in their adaptation of this teaching due to their distinctive understanding of creatio. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (408 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783110212143 3110212145 1282073338 9781282073333 |