TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Christian Platonism : a history
A2  - Hampton, Alexander J. B., toimittaja
A2  - Kenney, John Peter, toimittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/kansalliskirjastofikka/Record/fikka.5477151
AB  - "Anyone wishing to understand the Christian tradition deeply must consider the central, formative role of Platonism. At various times Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with a fundamental intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternately, at other times, it has been considered a compromising influence, conflicting with the faith's revelatory foundations and distorting its inherent message. In both the positive and negative cases, the central importance of Platonism, as a force which Christianity defined itself by and against, is clear. Equally, this process of influence is not unidirectional"--
SN  - 978-1-108-49198-3 sidottu
KW  - Christian philosophy : History.
KW  - Platonists.
KW  - Philosophy and religion.
ER  -