{"product_id":"longing-for-perfection-in-late-antiquity-studies-on-journeys-between-ideal-and-reality-in-pagan-and-christian-literature-9789004681125","title":"Longing for Perfection in Late Antiquity: Studies on Journeys between Ideal and Reality in Pagan and Christian Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the post-Enlightenment world, philosophy and religion have come to occupy different, even opposed, domains. But how were they related before this? What were the commonalities and dissimilarities between them? Did they already contain the seeds of their later division – or do they still share enough in common to allow meaningful conversation between them?  This new Brill series “Ancient Philosophy \u0026amp; Religion” provides an interdisciplinary platform for monographs, edited volumes and commentaries on this issue. It is edited by two leading scholars in the fields it brings together, George Boys-Stones (Ancient Philosophy) and George van Kooten (New Testament Studies), and is supported by an editorial board whose members are known for their work in the area. It invites scholars of ancient philosophy, Classics, early Judaism, ancient Judaism, New Testament \u0026amp; early Christianity, and all other relevant fields, to showcase their research on ancient philosophy and religion and to contribute to the debate.   The series’ subject matter is symbolized by its icon, used by courtesy and permission of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. It represents a dialogue between philosophers, as shown on one of the reliefs of the funeral sacrificial table (mensa) from the “House of Proclus” on the Southern slope of the Acropolis at Athens, excavated in 1955. Dating from 350-325 BC, the reliefs of the mensa depict, after the lamentation and the farewell, the posthumous encounter of the deceased with the philosophers (1950 NAM 90).  The editors very much welcome proposals for monographs, edited volumes and even commentaries on relevant texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Figures and Table    1 Introduction   Johan Leemans, Geert Roskam and Peter Van Deun    Part 1: Human Goal and Divine Perfection in Plato and the Platonist Tradition  2 Assimilation to God and Practical Life from Plato to Plotinus   Paolo Torri    3 The God-like Plotinus and Proclus  Two Neoplatonic Patterns of Perfection   Robbert M. van den Berg    4 One Ideal, Various Paths to Perfection  ‘Becoming like God’ in Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades   Thibaut Lejeune    5 More than Perfect?  The Distinction between “Completely Perfect” (παντελής) and “More than Perfect” (ὑπερτέλειος) in Proclus’ Description of the Intelligible Gods   Arthur Oosthout    Part 2: Human Goal and Divine Perfection in Early Christian Thought  7 Christian versus Pagan Perfection   George Karamanolis    7 The Reader, the Bible, and the Path to Perfection  Philo, Clement \u0026amp; Origen   Marco Rizzi    8 Love’s Early Christian Lives  Schemata and Scenarios of Love’s Perfecting Work in Representative Greek Patristic and Monastic Writers   Paul M. Blowers    9 On the Concept of ‘Perfection’ in Maximus Confessor’s Genuine Capita Collections (ThOec, Car, CapXV, CapX)  A Lexical Survey   Pietro D’Agostino    Part 3: Models of Perfection: Greek and Christian  10 Human Perfection in Plutarch  Finding the Right Balance between Philosophy and Politics in the Comparison of Aristeides and Cato Maior   Laurens van der Wiel    11 Dealing with Models and Virtue  Plutarchean Synkriseis and Cappadocian Typology   Thomas Valgaeren    12 Perfect Imitators of Christ?  Saints and Martyrs as Models of (Im-)Perfection   Peter Gemeinhardt    Part 4: Pursuits of Perfection: Greek and Christian  13 Nunc Est Sudandum  Training and Exercises in Stoicism and Epicureanism   Geert Roskam    14 Galen on Human Perfection and Enhancement  Morality, Medicine, Cosmology   Teun Tieleman    15 Perfection in the Two Ways Tradition  Aspirational or Attainable?   Julien C. H. Smith    16 A Thousand Pains and a Thousand Crowns  Perfection in the Homiletic Tradition   Olympe De Backer and Johan Leemans    17 The Road to Perfection in the Apocalypse of Paul   Jan N. Bremmer    18 Perfection – a Main (Educational) Topic in John Cassian’s Conferences?   Dorothee Schenk    19 “The Perfect Imperfect Perfection of the Perfects”  Longing for Perfection in the Ladder of John Sinaites   Maxim Venetskov    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210872709463,"sku":"9789004681125","price":125.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/longing-for-perfection-in-late-antiquity-studies-on-journeys-between-ideal-and-reality-in-pagan-and-christian-literature-9789004681125","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}