Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity

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Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity

Religious and Philosophical Interactions

Edited by Eleni Pachoumi and Mark Edwards

[Gebet und Kontemplation. Religiöse und philosophische Interaktion in der Spätantike.]

2018. VIII, 229 pages.

Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity (STAC)

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The present volume is focused on the interactions and syncretistic tensions between religion and philosophy in Late Antiquity. The contributors examine issues of personal religious attitudes, initiation to the mysteries, Orphism, theurgy, magic, the Neoplatonist philosopher's quest for intimacy or union with the divine, magic and Christianity, and oracles, dream-visions and divination.

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Eleni Pachoumi Studied Classical Studies; 2007 PhD; worked as a Lecturer of Classical Philology at the University of Thessaly, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Patras; Research Fellow at North-West University; currently Lecturer at the Open University in Greece and Academic Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford.

Mark Edwards 1984 BA in Literae Humaniores; 1990 BA in Theology; 1988 D.phil.; 1989-93 Junior Fellowship at New College; Tutor in Theology at Christ Church, Oxford and University Lecturer in Patristics in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford; since 2014 Professor of Early Christian Studies.