Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism

by Albert Camus, Ronald Srigley, Rémi Brague

Overview

Camus called the transition from Hellenism to Christianity "the true and only turning point in history." For Camus, modernity was not fully comprehensible without an examination of the aspirations that were first articulated in antiquity and that later received their clearest expression in Christianity. These aspirations amounted to a fundamental reorientation of human life in politics, religion, science, and philosophy. This work marks his first attempt to understand the relationship between Greek philosophy and Christianity as he charted the movement from the Gospels through Gnosticism and Plotinus to what he calls Augustine's "second revelation" of the Christian faith. Srigley's translation retains a great degree of literalness, and his annotations include nearly all of Camus' original citations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587311147
Publisher:	St. Augustine's Press
Publication date:	01/20/2015
Edition description:	1
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ronald D. Srigley currently teaches at Thorneloe University in Sudbury, Ontario, and is the author of Eric Voegelin's Platonic Theology: Philosophy of Consciousness and Symbolization in a New Perspective.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Translator's Introduction
Translator's Preface
                    CHRISTIAN METAPHYSIC AND NEOPLATONISM
Introduction
Chap. 1: Evangelicl Christianiy
Chap. 2: Gnosis
Chap. 3: Mystic Reason
Chap. 4: Augustne

Bibliography
Index