The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages: A Doxographic Approach. Edited by Stephen Gersh and Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen with the assistance of Pieter Th. van Wingerden. Pp. viii + 466. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2002. isbn 3 11 016844 8. €98
The importance of Plato and the Platonists for later medieval thought is a matter of interest not merely on historical grounds, but also because of the way in which notions such as participation have recently been popularized, for better or worse, in certain theological quarters. The volume here und...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 726-728 |
| Review of: | The Platonic tradition in the Middle Ages (Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2002) (Cross, Richard)
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| Summary: | The importance of Plato and the Platonists for later medieval thought is a matter of interest not merely on historical grounds, but also because of the way in which notions such as participation have recently been popularized, for better or worse, in certain theological quarters. The volume here under review takes a very distinct approach to the question of medieval Platonism. As its title indicates, that approach is ‘doxographic’. |
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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/fli204 |