Astral Ensoulment and Astral Signifiers in Sixth-Century Readings of Origen and Evagrius: Justinian’s Anathemas, Sergius of Rešʿaynā, John Philoponus
Abstract In 543 and 553, two church councils initiated by Justinian condemned Origen’s belief that stars possess rational souls. In this article, I place Justinian’s anathemas in the wider context of sixth-century debates on Biblical cosmology and on the validity of astral sciences. In the first par...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Vigiliae Christianae
Year: 2021, Volume: 75, Issue: 5, Pages: 483-523 |
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Syriac Literature
B Origenism B Late Antique Alexandria B astral sciences B Biblical cosmology B Neoplatonism |
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