Divine Powers in Late Antiquity PDF book is popular Religion book written by Anna Marmodoro. The book was released by Oxford University Press on 2017-01-26 with total hardcover pages 292. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Divine Powers in Late Antiquity by Anna Marmodoro in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
A collection of original essays on the concept of divine power(s) in Late Antiquity. It investigates how four major figures of Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Porphyry,
Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? Are powers such a
In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankin
The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the