Did God Care?: Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy

Boston: BRILL (2020)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In _Did God Care?_ Dylan Burns offers the first comprehensive survey of providence (_pronoia_) in ancient philosophy, from Plato to Plotinus, that takes into full account the importance and innovations of early Christian thinkers, including Coptic Gnostic and Syriac sources.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Call number

B105.D47.B97 2020

ISBN(s)

9789004432970   9004432973

Other Versions

No versions found

View all bargains

Buy this book

Links

PhilArchive

    This entry is not archived by us. If you are the author and have permission from the publisher, we recommend that you archive it. Many publishers automatically grant permission to authors to archive pre-prints. By uploading a copy of your work, you will enable us to better index it, making it easier to find.

    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 106,314

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Did God Care? Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy, written by Dylan M. Burns. [REVIEW]Giannis Stamatellos - 2021 - International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 15 (2):234-237.
Ḥuts mi-yirʼat shamayim: bi-yede shamayim uvi-yede adam bi-derushe reshit ha-Ḥasidut = Not in the hands of heaven: the limits of human action in the teachings of early Hassidic masters.Daṿid Tsori - 2016 - Yerushalayim: Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit.
Providence, fatalité, liberté. Proclus - 1979 - Paris: Belles Lettres. Edited by Daniel Isaac, William & Isaac Comnenus.
Fate, providence and moral responsibility in ancient, medieval and early modern thought: studies in honour of Carlos Steel.Pieter D' Hoine, Gerd van Riel & Carlos G. Steel (eds.) - 2014 - Leuven: Leuven University Press.
Providence and free will in human actions.Daniel W. Goodenough - 1986 - Bryn Athyn, Pa.: Swedenborg Scientific Association.
Homosexuality and Liminality in the Gilgames and Samuel.Virginia Muänoz Llamosas - 2007
De contingentia futurorum.Jean-françois Genest - 1992 - Paris: Librairie Philosophique Vrin. Edited by Thomas Buckingham.
De contingentia futurorum.Jean François Genest - 1992 - Paris: Librairie Philosophique Vrin. Edited by Thomas Buckingham.
Divine and Human Providence: Philosophical, Psychological and Theological Approaches.Ignacio Alberto Silva & Simon Maria Kopf (eds.) - 2020 - London, UK: Routledge.
Über die Vorsehung, das Schicksal und den freien Willen an Theodoros, den Ingenieur (Mechaniker).Ingeborg Espermann & Proclus - 1980 - Meisenheim am Glan: Hain. Edited by Theo Borger & Michael Erler.

Analytics

Added to PP
2020-05-07

Downloads
15 (#1,333,943)

6 months
1 (#1,595,537)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Avicenna on Animal Goods.Bethany Somma - 2021 - Journal of Islamic Ethics 5:1-34.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Creation and Divine Providence in Plotinus.Christopher Noble & Nathan Powers - 2015 - In Anna Marmodoro & Brian D. Prince, Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. pp. 51-70.

Add more references