Divine Powers in Late Antiquity

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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,

Divine Powers in Late Antiquity

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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

Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World

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In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankin

Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity

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This book explores ancient thinking about causation and creation, considering the perspectives of key Christian and pagan thinkers.

Cosmic Order and Divine Power

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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