Index of Subjects
Academy/Academics
29, 36, 39–40, 80, 124, 156, 158, 271
Agape see “love”
Alexandrian School
67, 72, 84, 161, 210
Allegory
3, 7, 9–10, 13, 15–17, 66, 71–72, 77, 81–83, 95, 109–14, 116–45, 172, 190, 201, 244, 269–70
Analogy/analogia
193, 196–98, 201, 214, 244–45, 250, 263
Anti-Christian polemics
69, 71–73, 88, 123–25
Antiochene School
12
Apokatastasis see “restoration”
Apophatic theology see “negative theology”
Apotheosis see “deification”
Arianism
16, 79
Aporia
8, 39–40, 45–46
Aristotelianism/Peripateticism
13, 22–23, 29, 72 (fn. 46), 80, 130, 197 (fn. 32), 203, 225, 258–59, 271
Ascent
22 (fn. 4), 44, 46–47, 60, 126, 136, 144, 153, 157–58, 160, 164–65, 173–74, 178, 185, 201–07, 252–53, 267–68
Asceticism
11, 14, 32, 66, 68, 77, 149, 183–84
Beauty
11, 92, 148–49, 157–61, 183–85, 224
Boldness/παρρησία
28, 35, 45–46, 49
Christology
13, 31 (fn. 52), 147 (fn. 2), 166, 172, 208–10, 218, 221, 246, 261–62, 271
Church
14, 17, 66, 78, 113, 115, 120, 125, 128, 133, 170, 231–32, 248
Commentary (as a genre of philosophy)
4–7, 10–11, 14, 17, 78, 81–83, 86, 92, 108, 109, 114, 116, 118, 120, 128, 131, 132, 136, 192–93, 195, 200, 201, 215–16, 260, 269–72
Condescension/συγκατάβασις
112, 231–32, 237–38, 242
Conversion
7, 9, 23 (fn. 4), 32 (fn. 57), 35–36, 39–42, 44, 45, 47 (fn. 138), 48–49, 50 (fn. 147), 51, 61–108, 155–56, 169–70, 269
Creation see “protology”
Crucifixion see “Death, of Jesus Christ” and “Passion of Jesus Christ”
Cynicism
8, 28–29, 32–36, 40 (fn. 99), 43, 49, 51, 217 (fn. 1), 241
Death
(
“martyr/martyrdom”
) 28, 33, 45–46, 59, 60, 76, 78, 97, 108, 110–11, 144, 150, 153 (fn. 32), 160, 240
Death of Jesus Christ
(
“Passion of Jesus Christ”
) 46–47, 126, 137, 150, 183, 230, 248, 253, 272
Deification
11–12, 15, 34, 44, 167–68, 178–79, 186, 189, 202, 227, 248, 254, 256, 262, 270
Demons/daemons/daimonian
27–28, 58, 65, 87, 124, 165 (fn. 85), 203 (fn. 58), 208, 230, 242
Determinism
36, 224
Divine condescension
112
Divine incomprehensibility
11–12, 37–39, 43–44, 148, 150–52, 161, 164–68, 169, 175, 178–79, 183–86
Divine man
27
Egyptian mythology/theology
66, 73 (fn. 48), 77, 87, 119–20, 122, 123–24, 160, 198–99, 271
Elenchus
8, 34–35, 45–46, 49, 242–43
Epicureanism
23 (fn. 7), 29, 40 (fn. 99), 122 (fn. 62)
Eschaton/Eschatology
12, 14, 39, 48, 61–62, 87, 90, 93, 95, 98, 132–33, 137, 154, 163–64, 166, 173–80, 184–85, 187, 220, 222, 231–33, 236–38, 246–48, 253–54, 267, 270
Essenes
132
Ethics/Morality
(
“virtue”
) 32, 13–14, 17, 47 (fn. 138), 62, 118, 159, 219, 221–28, 233–34, 246–47, 249–51, 254, 256, 267–68, 270
Eudaimonia
34, 73
Exemplar
33, 69, 172–73, 218, 220–28, 234–38
Exodus
15, 66, 234–35, 270
Faith
35, 41, 45, 47, 60, 65, 97, 106, 115, 117, 144, 163, 173, 254–57, 262, 272
Forms/ideas
40–41, 43, 47, 91 (fn. 133), 97, 120, 130
Freedom
34–36, 41, 45–46, 49, 61, 77, 166, 186, 203–04, 206, 217, 224–29, 233–34, 236–37, 240–41, 257
Gnostics/Gnosticism
17, 68, 76, 87, 113, 127 (fn. 106), 129, 131, 136, 151, 202 (fn. 56), 244
Hellenistic Judaism
6–8, 10, 13, 15, 25, 33, 43–45, 48–51, 89, 135–37, 270
Hermetic Corpus/Hermeticism
3, 87, 150–51
Hermeneutics
29–30, 111, 162, 171, 178, 180, 188–216, 244, 269–72
History
13, 47, 61, 62, 98, 116, 118, 126, 131–32, 135, 137, 145, 189, 222–38, 247–48, 270–71
Hybridity
4, 31, 45
Hypostasis
64, 82, 89, 122, 158, 197, 204 (fn. 62), 209 (fn. 76), 210–11, 248, 262–63
Idols/idolatry
65–66, 76, 97, 106, 122, 160, 199, 214, 216
Ignorance
32, 35, 49
Illness, vice/ignorance
as
see “therapy, philosophy as”
Image of God
11–12, 15, 44, 146 (fn.), 153, 155, 161, 173–75, 178–80, 187, 271; cf. 214 (“image of the gods”)
Immortality
46, 253 (fn. 42), 205 (fn. 65), 250, 252–53, 255
Incarnation
36, 41, 46–47, 89, 112–16, 126, 136–37, 144, 158, 161, 172, 180, 208–11, 230–32, 248, 254, 271
Inspiration
17 (fn. 62), 63, 92, 98, 110, 113–14, 116, 119, 124, 127, 133 (fn. 154), 137, 184, 244, 271
Intellect see “mind”
Irony
23 (fn. 7), 40 (fn. 99), 45–46
Judaism
(
“Hellenistic Judaism”
) 1–2, 6–8, 10, 13, 45, 132–33, 134–36, 233–35, 269–72
Law, Mosaic/Jewish
(
“Moses” in “Index of Ancient Authors and Other Ancient Figures
) 7, 113, 123–24, 129, 130, 143, 173, 187, 247
Law, other
66, 72, 94, 107, 118, 130, 143, 145, 163, 204 (fn. 62), 224, 253, 270
Literal meaning
3, 10, 16–17, 111, 112–13, 116, 121, 124–26, 129–37, 143–45
Logos
10, 13–14, 16–17, 36, 41, 42 (fn. 106), 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 58, 59, 63, 73, 77, 79, 88–89, 97, 98, 108, 112–16, 118–20, 122, 124, 136–37, 144, 208, 210 (fn. 77), 211, 214, 230, 244, 248, 252–54, 256, 259–60, 262, 264, 269, 271
Love
27, 92, 136, 149, 151, 155, 156, 157, 158–59, 184–85, 268
Marcionism
(
“Marcion” in the Index of Ancient Authors and Other Ancient Figures
) 68, 73, 113, 125, 129
Martyr/Martyrdom
28, 33, 38, 40, 69–70, 235
Material world/Matter/sensible world
40–41, 42–43, 80 (fn. 87), 109, 111, 131–32, 151, 153, 155, 160, 163, 166, 183–86, 191 (fn. 10), 195–203, 204 (fn. 62), 205 (fn. 65), 206, 208, 209, 214–15, 230, 243, 249–53, 259–60, 268
Messiah
49, 50
Middle-Platonism
6, 8, 10, 31, 39–43, 48–49, 72, 73 (fn. 48), 80, 81, 86, 88, 111, 115, 117–23, 130–31, 136–37, 151
Mind/intellect/nous/intelligible/noetic
44, 73, 80, 90, 92, 96, 109–12, 114, 115, 117, 120, 126, 131, 135, 144, 149–50, 153–54, 156, 160, 165, 171, 183, 186–87, 191 (fn. 10), 195–97, 199–203, 205 (fn. 65), 206, 214–15, 223, 243, 247, 249–57, 259–60, 262, 268
Monad/Monism
36, 91–92, 197, 214, 246, 268
Mystery Religions
3, 71–72, 77, 121, 143, 164–65 (fn. 85)
Mystical experience
(
“ritual”
) 14–15, 164, 171, 173, 178
Mystical interpretation see “allegory/allegorical” and “spiritual interpretation”
Myth
10, 16, 66, 81–82, 111–12, 116, 118–26, 132–36, 137, 143–44, 201, 216, 271
Negative theology
12, 14, 39, 149, 151, 161, 162 (fn. 72), 164, 167–68, 178–79
Neoplatonism
(
“Platonism”
) 3, 9–16, 24 (n. 16), 61, 62–63, 64 (fn. 10), 71 (fn. 44), 73, 79, 81–93, 96, 98, 116, 119, 120, 126, 136, 151, 188–216, 245, 269
Neopythagoreanism
(
“Pythagoreanism”
) 6, 72, 73 (fn. 48), 121, 123, 245–46
Nous/noetic see “mind”
Paideia
3, 40, 71–72, 75, 85, 219
Passions/vice
111–12, 149 (fn. 5), 150, 155, 183, 216, 217, 220, 225, 232, 242, 249–51, 256–57
Passion (of Jesus Christ)
26–27, 28 (fn. 38), 45, 163, 185
Peripateticism see “Aristotelianism”
Persecution
67, 71 (fn. 43), 130, 145, 191 (fn. 10), 235
Pesher
7, 270
Philanthropy/philanthrōpia (technical sense)
27–28, 220–21, 232
Platonism
(
“Middle Platonism” and “Neoplatonism”
;
“Plato” under “Ancient Writers and Other Ancient Figures”
) 2, 9–12, 16, 22–23, 29–31, 40, 43, 49, 50 (fn. 147), 63, 64 (fn. 10), 67–69, 73, 80–93, 97, 110, 115, 119–25, 130–34, 136–37, 146 (fn. 1), 149–51, 159–61, 185, 193, 198, 203, 205 (fn. 65), 206–07, 210, 218–19, 228–29, 232, 241, 260, 263, 269–72
Potency see “power”
Power/δύναμις /potency
44, 80 (fn. 87), 115–16, 160, 177 (fn. 145), 197, 199, 200 (fn. 44), 201, 203–04, 205 (fn. 65), 209 (fn. 76), 214, 243, 246, 255–57, 268, 272
Presocratic philosophy
34, 227
Prophets/prophecy
2, 16, 58, 60, 113, 117, 123–24, 125–26, 143–44, 176, 243, 247, 270
Protology
62, 73, 74, 81–83, 91, 98, 109, 132–35, 145, 171, 198 (fn. 37), 201 (fn. 51), 202, 206, 223, 229–30, 232, 244–45, 250–51
Protrepsis
32 (fn. 57), 34–35, 45, 49, 50, 60
Providence
13, 73, 114, 219–38, 269
Pythagoreanism
(
“Neopythagoreanism”
) 2, 16, 40, 71–72, 130, 143, 215, 270
Reason/rationality
78, 87, 96, 97, 110, 115, 117, 119, 126, 131, 145, 151, 153, 155, 160, 163, 183, 185, 188, 203–04, 225–26, 229, 233–34, 236, 250, 253, 255–57, 260, 262, 272
Religious turn (in ancient philosophy)
2–8, 31
Repentance/metanoia
14 (fn. 49), 61, 93, 95, 97–98, 233, 235
Restoration/apokatastasis
9, 61–64, 81–82, 89–98, 107–108, 115, 126, 129, 132
Resurrection
45–47, 60, 126, 163, 168, 185, 242, 248, 252–53
Revelation
87, 156–57, 166, 179, 191, 211, 271–72
Rhetoric
16, 23–25, 32, 109, 129, 136–37, 149, 183, 191, 219, 228
Ritual
3–4, 10–11, 14, 87, 91, 118–22, 149, 183, 190, 191 (fn. 10), 192 (fn. 14), 198–99, 200 (fn. 47), 201, 203, 206–08, 216, 271
Rule of faith
17
Sacraments
112–13, 136, 144, 156, 170, 200, 208–09, 243
Search/Seeking/ἐρευνάω /ζητέω )/zetetic
39, 45–49, 51, 65, 117, 120, 124, 128, 145, 156, 158, 160–61, 180
Self-knowledge
34–35, 43, 116, 170
Sensible see “material world”
Septuagint
27, 43, 44–45, 93–94, 126–28, 244, 271
Skepticism
8, 23 (fn. 7), 36–39, 41, 43, 49, 80, 124, 156, 158–59, 271
Socratic Renaissance
25–26
Sophists/Sophistry/Sophistic
22, 24, 30 (fn. 45), 32, 34, 40, 49, 57, 217 (fn. 1)
Soul
40–41, 43, 50 (fn. 147), 64 (fn. 10), 80 (fn. 87), 96, 109, 114, 115, 122, 126, 131–34, 144, 147 (fn. 1), 155, 163, 172, 173, 185, 203–06, 222, 241, 243, 249–50, 253–56, 260, 262
Spirit/spiritual
42 (fn. 106), 43, 59, 89 (fn. 128), 110–11, 113, 115, 117, 119, 131, 135, 144, 149, 170, 173–74, 176 (fn. 134), 177, 187, 242–43, 245, 248–50
Spiritual interpretation
(
“allegory”
) 3, 7, 17, 77, 91–92, 94–95, 110–12, 116–17, 125, 129–34, 144–45, 177, 189, 249, 267
Spiritual senses
112, 131–32, 175–77
Stoicism
8–10, 12–13, 22–23, 26, 29, 32–36, 40, 43, 49, 51, 69, 71–72, 73, 94, 111, 113, 115, 117–23, 124, 126, 130–31, 136–37, 143, 150 (fn. 10), 200 (fn. 45), 203, 217–43, 271
Tension (τόνος )
113
Theoria
1, 5, 14, 244
Theosis see “deification”
Therapeutae
132
Therapy, philosophy as
14 (fn. 49), 32, 34–36, 50, 95, 206, 223
Transformation
12, 32 (fn. 57), 36, 39, 42, 45, 48, 62 (fn. 5), 146 (fn.), 153, 162, 167–68, 169, 173–76, 178–80, 184, 186–87
Trinity
147 (fn. 2), 149, 166, 172, 209 (fn. 76), 248
Two-Origens hypothesis
65–67, 71 (fn. 44), 79, 81–89, 191 (fn. 10)
Two ways
45
Vice see “passions”
Virtue
(
“ethics”
) 11, 32, 76, 97, 134–35, 149, 157–58, 217, 220–28, 232–38, 240–42, 254–57, 262–63
Vision of God
41, 158, 162, 169, 174–80, 187
Vulgate
95
Zetetic see “search”