Demiurge in ancient thought, the: secondary gods and divine mediators
Auteur :
O'Brien, Carl Séan
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107075368
Date de publication :
29 janv. 2015
Dimensions :
23,5 x 16,0 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
640 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
A lucid and wide-ranging book arguing that the concept of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god, first advanced by Plato's Timaeus, was highly influential on the many discussions of world-generation operating in Middle Platonist, Gnostic, Hermetic and Christian contexts in the first three centuries AD, until its demise in Neoplatonism.