Eusebios, Porphyrios und Augustin im Kampf um Deutungshoheit

Eusebios, Porphyrios und Augustin im Kampf um Deutungshoheit 

Edited by Volker Henning Drecoll and Irmgard Männlein-Robert  

2024. VII, 189 pages.

Bedrohte Ordnungen (BedrO) 20

DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-163964-7

Sponsored by: Sonderforschungsbereich 923

Published in German.

Platonism and Christianity perceived each other as a threat in late antiquity. Through reflection and polemics, they each attempted to establish their own sovereignty of interpretation and to invalidate the orientation promised by the other order. In their essays, the contributors of this volume focus on the influential Platonist Porphyrios and his fight against the Christian authors Eusebios of Caesarea and Augustine of Hippo.

Table of contents:

Wolfram Kinzig: Die Ausbreitung des Christentums als Humanisierungsprozess: Eusebios verteidigt die Neuheit seiner Religion - Sabrina Inowlocki Meister: A New Christian »Order of Books«? Eusebius's Bio-Bibliographical Catalogue of the Christian Authors in the Historia ecclesiastica - Mark Edwards: Porphyry and Eusebius on Egypt - Lisa Neumann Eusebios gegen Hierokles im Kampf um Deutungshoheit - Giuseppe Muscolino: The Double Aspect of Theurgic Ritual in Porphyry's Philosophy from Oracles (Philosophia ex oraculis) - Sébastien Morlet: Eusebius, Augustine and Porphyry (?) on theologia tripertita - Giovanni Catapano: Pagan Classics against Pagan Critics of the Gospels. Augustine's Argument in De consensu euangelistarum, Book 1 - Gillian Clark: Melius sapuit iste Porphyrius. Augustine Appropriates Porphyry - David DeMarco: Augustine and Porphyry on the Wisdom of the Hebrews and Chaldeans - Gretchen Reydams-Schils: Calcidius, Nemesius, and Porphyry