Platonic theories of prayer
By: edited by John Dillon, Andrei Timotin
Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition -- VOLUME 19
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789004308725
Subjects: Ancient Philosophy; Philosophy and religion; Prayer
Description: "Platonic theories of prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. The volume originates from a panel on the topic held at the 2013 ISNS meeting in Cardiff, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers. Together they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period. The concept of prayer is shown to include not just formal petitionary or encomiastic prayer, but also theurgical practices and various states of meditation and ecstasy practised by such major figures as Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus, Damascius or Dionysius the Areopagite."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.