Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity

[A] fine and engaging compendium on an exciting subject matter - the mutual relationship of Platonism and Christianity... a highly informative and rich book. The individual chapters... provide a glimpse into the exciting times of philosophical debates that shaped Christianity as we know it. The work as a whole succeeds in shedding, so to say, new light on old questions, but also on some less explored subjects, and thus promises to remain an interesting and informative reading for students and scholars of both Early Christianity and Late Platonism, as well as for historians of ideas in general. - Review of Ecumenical Studies [A] highly engaging reading that will surely elicit further research in Patristic Platonism. - Classical Journal ...successfully challenges the basic assumptions of much discussion surrounding Christianity and Late Antique intellectual discourse. As such the volume is successful in challenging the reader not to view the relationship between Christianity and Platonism in the simplistic terms of enmity and competition, but rather as a complex and multifaceted relationship, sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always profitable. This is a volume that complements recent scholarship on Late Antique philosophy and Christianity, and I would recommend it to all those interested in Late Antique Christianity, the interactions between 'pagan' and Christian intellectual discourse, and the general development of Late Antique philosophy. - Diogenes L'ouvrage livre un riche et stimulant apercu de la variete des questions qui animaient les penseurs paiens et chretiens de l'epoque... cha>que contribution illustre a sa facon la omplexite des liens entre platonisme et christianisme ainsi que la profondeur des idees tardo-antiques, encore trop souvent jugees inferieures a celles qui les ont precedees. - Laval Theologique et Philosophique [The book provides a rich and stimulating overview of the variety of questions that animated the pagan and Christian thinkers of the time... each contribution illustrates in its own way the complexity of the links between Platonism and Christianity as well as the depth late-antique ideas, still too often considered inferior to those that preceded them.] PCTLA est utile non seulement pour les chercheurs experts, mais aussi pour les jeunes etudiants, qui pourront aisement s'orienter dans les specialites des etudes recueillies dans ce volume. En definitive, PCTLA atteint pleinement son but en fournissant un apercu complet et approfondi de la relation complexe entre platonisme et christianisme dans l'Antiquite tardive. - Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Theologiques [PCTLA is useful not only for expert researchers, but also for young students, who can easily orient themselves in the specialties of the studies collected in this volume. Ultimately, PCTLA fully achieves its purpose in providing a comprehensive and in-depth insight into the complex relationship between Platonism and Christianity in Late Antiquity.]