Universal salvation in late antiquity : Porphyry of Tyre and the pagan-Christian debate / Michael Bland Simmons

Author:: Simmons, Michael Bland
Published:: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Physical Description:: xliv, 491 pages ; 25 cm.

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Oxford studies in late antiquity

Contents:

Porphyry of Tyre : life & historical contexts -- Contextualizing a Porphyrian soteriology -- De philosophia ex oraculis : soteriological structure and contents -- The contra Christianos in the context of universalism -- Eusebius and Porphyry : the theophany -- The historical and cultural context of universalism -- The meaning of salvation in a Greco-Roman milieu -- Philosophia ex oraculis : a tripartite universalism -- Porphyry & Iamblichus -- Eschatological salvation -- Historical context : Caracalla to Constantine -- Religious universalism : paganism and Christianity -- Conclusions.

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Comparative studies

ISBN:

9780190202392 hardcover alkaline paper
0190202394 hardcover alkaline paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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