"Late Antiquity was particularly fertile in regard to the development of religion and philosophy; both what was propounded by scholars and what people throughout society thought and believed. The competition and cross-pollination between traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neo-Platonist philosophy, and Christian theology of the Patristic era created a feast for researchers that is both interesting and interdisciplinary. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle betweenChristianity and Paganism (for lack of a better term) are reductive and incomplete. Greenwood's research, published between 2013 and 2018 in the fields of history, divinity, and philosophy, demonstrates the complexity of that era and provide a more fully-orbed picture of major actors including the Emperor Julian, Porphyry of Tyre, and Celsus. From the second to the fourth centuries, these were some of the major players in attempting to define the terrain in the conflict between their philosophies and theChristian religion. While the timeframe remains consistently within the late second to the mid-fourth centuries A.D., the evidence ranges between inscriptions, literature, and historical accounts. The particular focus of Greenwood's research is the emperor Julian (Flavius Caludius Julianus, d. 363), a figure of perennial interest, as not only the last pagan emperor, but the last anti-Christian polemicist of real significance in antiquity. This volume builds upon numerous recent articles offering a new perspective on Julian, bringing together research from ancient history, Neoplatonist philosophy, and patristic theology, and will be useful to students and scholars alike from these disciplines"--
Late Antiquity was an era of remarkable change as beliefs were shaped and reshaped by the competing philosophies of traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neoplatonist philosophy, and the theology of the early Church.
Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle between Christianity and paganism are reductive. The research presented in this Variorum volume, originally published between 2013 and 2018 in the fields of history, divinity, and philosophy, demonstrates the complexity of the age and provides a more complete picture of major actors including the emperor Julian, Porphyry of Tyre, and Celsus. From the second to the fourth centuries, these were some of the major players in attempting to define the terrain in the conflict between their philosophies and the Christian religion. While the timeframe remains consistently within the late second to the mid-fourth centuries A.D., the sources range between inscriptions, literature, and historical accounts. The particular focus is the emperor Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus, d. 363), a figure of perennial interest, as not only the last pagan emperor, but the last anti-Christian polemicist of real significance in antiquity.
This volume offers a new perspective on Julian, bringing together research from ancient history, Neoplatonist philosophy, and patristic theology, and will be useful to students and scholars alike.
This volume builds upon numerous recent articles offering a new perspective on Julian.
Introduction: A Decade with the Emperor Julian
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International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2011 , ed.
Markus Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters Publishing, 2013
2. 'A Cautionary Note on Julians Pagan Trinity,' Ancient Philosophy 33
(2013): 39102
3. 'Crafting Divine Personae in Julians Or. 7,' Classical Philology 109
(2014): 140149
4. 'A Pagan Emperors Appropriation of Matthews Gospel,' The Expository
Times 125 (2014): 593598
5. 'The Alethes Logos of Celsus and the Historicity of Christ,' Anglican
Theological Review 96 (2014): 705713
6. 'Five Latin Inscriptions from Julians Pagan Restoration,' Bulletin of the
Institute of Classical Studies 57 (2014): 101119
7. 'Celsus, Origen, and Julian on Christian Miracle-Claims,' Heythrop Journal
57 (2016): 99108
8. 'Christianizing Translations in the Loeb Editions of Julian and Libanius,'
Translation and Literature 25 (2016): 222227
9. 'Porphyry, Rome, and Support for Persecution,' Ancient Philosophy 36
(2016): 197207
10. 'Platos Pilot in the Political Strategy of Julian and Libanius,'
Classical Quarterly NS 67 (2017): 607616
11. 'Constantinian Influence upon Julians Pagan Church,' Journal of
Ecclesiastical History 68 (2017): 121
12. 'Celsus, Origen, and the Eucharist,' 187194 in Studia Patristica, Vol.
XCIV Papers Presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on
Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2015, ed. Markus Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters
Publishing, 2017
13. 'Julians Use of Asclepius against the Christians,' Harvard Studies in
Classical Philology 109 (2017): 491509
14. 'Porphyrys Influence upon Julian: Apotheosis and Divinity,' Ancient
Philosophy 38 (2018): 421434
15. 'New Testament Christology, Athanasian Apologetic, and Pagan Polemic,'
Journal of Theological Studies NS 69 (2018): 101105
David Neal Greenwood took his Ph.D. in Patristics and Classics from the University of Edinburgh, UK and is currently an honorary fellow on the Classics faculty of the University of St. Andrews, UK. He is the author of books and numerous articles in theology, philosophy, and history. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2021.
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