Aristotle and Early Christian Thought. By Mark Edwards
This very useful book, in a series co-edited by Edwards himself, is the first English volume to describe the appropriation of Aristotelian thought in Christianity until the sixth century. The preface explains the history of scholarship, from Festugière to Runia to articles on Clement, Origen, and Gr...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 882-889 |
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| Summary: | This very useful book, in a series co-edited by Edwards himself, is the first English volume to describe the appropriation of Aristotelian thought in Christianity until the sixth century. The preface explains the history of scholarship, from Festugière to Runia to articles on Clement, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa’s debt to Aristotle, among whom I see mine (here and often elsewhere). Edwards does well not to speak of Christian Aristotelianism—at least for the patristic period, not for scholasticism. ‘Aristotelianizing was sustainable only when the Prime Mover of Metaphysics 12’ was identified with the Christian God (p. x). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa071 |