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Demonstrative proof in defence of God : a study of Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos : the work's sources, aims, and relation to its contemporary theology /
This volume is the first extensive study of a Christian work from the 4th century, Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos, which is the only text from the early Greek Church setting out a comprehensive theodicy. The study illuminates the text's relation to contemporary theology and philosophy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Colección: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;
56. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- I. Introduction
- 1. The main interpretation
- Excursion: Manichaeism as Christian Gnosis
- 2. Overview of the study's structure
- II. Summary of Contents
- 1. Summary of Book I
- 2. Summary of Book II
- 3. Summary of Book III
- 4. Summary of Book IV
- III. Receptions, editions and scholarship history of Contra Manichaeos
- 1. Knowledge of Titus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- 2. Reception of and scholarship on Contra Manichaeos from the end of the 16th century to De Lagarde's editions of the text in 1859.
- 3. Contra Manichaeos as a source of knowledge on Manichaeism
- 4. Titus as a theological and philosophical writer
- 5. Text transmission and history of editions
- IV. The historical and literary context for Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos
- 1. Introductory remarks
- 2. The province of Arabia, conflicts between pagans and Catholics and the dating of Contra Manichaeos
- Excursion: Other works by Titus
- 3. Heresiology and anti-Manichaeism
- Excursion: Possible use of various patristic sources in Titus.
- v. The audience for Contra Manichaeos and the portrayal of Manichaeism that Titus wished to present to them
- 1. The two audiences
- 2. Titus's portrayal of Manichaeism as barbarism, irrationalism and as a philosophy
- 3. Titus's portrayal of Manichaeism as determinism and immorality
- VI. The Manichaean texts used by Titus of Bostra
- 1 The relevance of the problem for this study
- 2. Heraclianus's information and Adda's works
- 3. The Manichaean source in Contra Manichaeos I + III. 4-5
- 4. Other Manichaean sources in Contra Manichaeos Books III-IV.
- 5. The Manichaean criticism of the Creator God in Contra Manichaeos III. 7
- a. Introduction
- b. Discussion of the non-Catholic polemical interpretations of the OT
- c. The philosophical and Marcionite background for the idea of the Creator's ignorance
- d. The philosophical and Gnostic background for the idea of the Creator's zk"opr{
- e. The positive evaluation of man's acquisition of knowledge in Gnostic texts
- f. Comparison with the original Manichaean literature
- g. Comparison with Augustine's portrayal of Manichaeism
- h. Comparison with Emperor Julian's treatise: Contra Galilaeos.
- I. Problems and different solutions
- VII. Titus of Bostra's philosophical position
- 1. Titus's knowledge of philosophers and philosophical texts
- 2. Titus's concept of God and his basic philosophical position
- 3. The ""common concepts""
- 4. Titus's philosophical psychology
- VIII. Titus of Bostra's interpretation of the Paradise narrative
- 1. Introductory remark
- 2. The image of God in man
- 3. God's foreknowledge and man's disobedience
- 4. Comparison with earlier writers
- 5. Death as a benefit
- a. Titus's view of death in Book II and Book IV
- b. Death did not harm man.