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Platonism is the philosophy of Plato or the name of other philosophical systems considered closely derived from it. In a narrower sense the term might indicate the doctrine of Platonic realism. The c...
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Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism ) is the modern term for a school of religious and mystical philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century CE, founded by Plotinus and based on the teachings of Plat...
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And life in the highest sense, what we call spiritual and eternal life, all that deserves the name of life, is in and of and from the soul, which matter only contaminates and clouds, and the body only clogs and entombs (Gorgias, 492, 493). Platonism, as well as Christianity, says, Look not at the things which are seen,
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305–324). "The Platonic dogmas," says Justin Martyr, "are not foreign to Christianity. If we Christians say that all things were created and ordered by God, we seem to enounce a doctrine of Plato; ... Platonism and Christianity ... PLATONISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
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PLATONISM AND CHRISTIANITY. "The peculiarity of the Platonic philosophy," says Hegel, in his History of Philosophy (vol. ii.), "is precisely this direction towards the supersensuous world, - it seeks the elevation of consciousness into the realm of spirit.
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Love Does Not Condemn: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil According to Platonism, Christianity, Gnosticism, and 'A Course in Miracles' by Kenneth Wapnick; Binding: Hardcover, 2nd edition edition, 698 pages ;
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Although this book is directed to Course students, it explain very thoroughly and rationally the relation between Ancient Christianity, Platonism, Neo-Platonism and Gnosticism.
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Examination of early Christianity to search for possible pagan influences including platonic and neoplatonic philosophy ... Thus, Nietzsche most clearly asserted that "Christianity is Platonism for the people."
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Christian Platonism (philosophy), ...His brief treatise On Not Three Gods relates the Cappadocian Fathers’ theology of three Persons in the Godhead (i.e., the Trinity) to Plato’s teachings of the One and the Many. ... Platonism (in Platonism: Ancient and medieval...
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By the late second century, however, mainstream Christianity had moved beyond its primarily Jewish origins and had become multiethnic in its composition. ... Accordingly, Origen sought the answers to questions about such far-reaching issues as life after death, not in the Bible but in Platonism. He was able to exert...
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