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- catalog abstract "Iamblichus was once considered one of the great philosophers. The Emperor Julian followed Iamblichus's teachings to guide the restoration of traditional pagan cults in his campaign against Christianity. Although Julian was unsuccessful, Iamblichus's ideas persisted well into the Middle Ages and beyond. His vision of a hierarchical cosmos united by divine ritual became the dominant worldview for the entire medieval world. Even Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that he expected a reading of Iamblichus to cause a "revival in the churches." But modern scholars have dismissed him, seeing theurgy as ritual magic or "manipulation of the gods." Shaw, however, shows that theurgy was a subtle and intellectually sophisticated attempt to apply Platonic and Pythagorean teachings to the full expression of human existence in the material world.".
- catalog contributor b8236287.
- catalog coverage "Rome Religion.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Iamblichus was once considered one of the great philosophers. The Emperor Julian followed Iamblichus's teachings to guide the restoration of traditional pagan cults in his campaign against Christianity. Although Julian was unsuccessful, Iamblichus's ideas persisted well into the Middle Ages and beyond. His vision of a hierarchical cosmos united by divine ritual became the dominant worldview for the entire medieval world. Even Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that he expected a reading of Iamblichus to cause a "revival in the churches." But modern scholars have dismissed him, seeing theurgy as ritual magic or "manipulation of the gods." Shaw, however, shows that theurgy was a subtle and intellectually sophisticated attempt to apply Platonic and Pythagorean teachings to the full expression of human existence in the material world.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: To Preserve the Cosmos -- 1. Embodiment in the Platonic Tradition -- 2. Matter as Cosmic Instrument -- 3. Matter as Obstacle to the Embodied Soul -- 4. Theurgy as Demiurgy -- 5. The Descent of the Soul -- 6. Soul as Mediator -- 7. The Constraints of Embodiment -- 8. The Freedom of Immortal Bodies -- 9. The Paradox of Embodiment -- 10. Descending to Apotheosis -- 11. Eros and the One of the Soul -- 12. Cult and Cosmos -- 13. Ritual and the Human Hierarchy -- 14. Ritual as Cosmogony -- 15. Material Sunthemata -- 16. Intermediate Sunthemata: Seeing and Hearing the Gods -- 17. Intermediate Sunthemata: Naming the Gods -- 18. Noetic Sunthemata: Mathematics and the Soul -- 19. Noetic Sunthemata: The Theurgy of Numbers -- 20. The Sunthemata of the Sun -- 21. The Platonizing of Popular Religion.".
- catalog extent "x, 268 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Theurgy and the soul.".
- catalog identifier "0271014377 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Theurgy and the soul.".
- catalog isPartOf "Hermeneutics".
- catalog isPartOf "Hermeneutics, studies in the history of religions (University Park, Pa.)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Theurgy and the soul.".
- catalog spatial "Rome Religion.".
- catalog subject "186/.4 20".
- catalog subject "B669.Z7 S48 1995".
- catalog subject "Iamblichus, approximately 250-approximately 330.".
- catalog subject "Neoplatonism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: To Preserve the Cosmos -- 1. Embodiment in the Platonic Tradition -- 2. Matter as Cosmic Instrument -- 3. Matter as Obstacle to the Embodied Soul -- 4. Theurgy as Demiurgy -- 5. The Descent of the Soul -- 6. Soul as Mediator -- 7. The Constraints of Embodiment -- 8. The Freedom of Immortal Bodies -- 9. The Paradox of Embodiment -- 10. Descending to Apotheosis -- 11. Eros and the One of the Soul -- 12. Cult and Cosmos -- 13. Ritual and the Human Hierarchy -- 14. Ritual as Cosmogony -- 15. Material Sunthemata -- 16. Intermediate Sunthemata: Seeing and Hearing the Gods -- 17. Intermediate Sunthemata: Naming the Gods -- 18. Noetic Sunthemata: Mathematics and the Soul -- 19. Noetic Sunthemata: The Theurgy of Numbers -- 20. The Sunthemata of the Sun -- 21. The Platonizing of Popular Religion.".
- catalog title "Theurgy and the soul : the neoplatonism of Iamblichus / Gregory Shaw.".
- catalog type "text".