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The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics - Patristic Philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus (Paperback)
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The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics - Patristic Philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus (Paperback)
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It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the
first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting philosophical
project alongside their engagement in the doctrinal controversies
of their age. The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient
Metaphysics offers, for the first time, a full analysis of this
Patristic philosophy. It shows how it took its distinctive shape in
the late fourth century and gives an account of its subsequent
development until the time of John of Damascus. The book falls into
three main parts. The first starts with an analysis of the
philosophical project underlying the teaching of the Cappadocian
fathers, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of
Nazianzus. This philosophy, arguably the first distinctively
Christian theory of being, soon became near-universally shared in
Eastern Christianity. Just a few decades after the Cappadocians,
all sides in the early Christological controversy took its
fundamental tenets for granted. Its application to the
Christological problem thus appeared inevitable. Yet it created
substantial conceptual problems. Parts two and three describe in
detail how these problems led to a series of increasingly radical
modifications of the Cappadocian philosophy. In part two, Zachhuber
explores the miaphysite opponents of the Council of Chalcedon,
while in part three he discusses the defenders of the Council from
the early sixth to the eighth century. Through this overview, the
book reveals this period as one of remarkable philosophical
creativity, fecundity, and innovation.
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