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  • Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the ... he uses Plotinus' well-known analogy of a sculptor’s cutting away ...
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  • where it was opposed by Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria. The doctrine continued ... mid-second century, where Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria (c. 200-265 C.E ...
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  • Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school ... Subsequent Neoplatonic philosophers include Hypatia of Alexandria ...
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  • The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order ... According to Philo, communities of Therapeutae were widely established ...
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  • theologian, who taught that the Son of God was not eternal, and was ... for using such language. Dionysius of Alexandria responded with an ...
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  • In the Roman Catholic Church, a Doctor of the Church (Latin doctor ... and Pope Gregory I were the original Doctors of the Church and were named in ...
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  • Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the conventional name of the ... ==Authorship of On the Sublime== Biographical details about the author ...
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  • His systematized and refined the cosmologies of Plotinus and Iamblichus, and ... Proclus’ greatest concern was the elevation of the human soul to ...
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  • 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ... Ficino introduced the concept of the immortality of the soul into ...
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  • third century C.E., based on the teachings of the antipope Novatian, who ... dared to call him a heretic. Saint Dionysius of Alexandria, a supporter of ...
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  • until the fourth century C.E. This period of Greek literature stretches ... Most of the epic poetry and tragedy has its roots in Ancient Greek ...
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  • parents. His life coincided with the rise of Constantine I and the reunion ... Damasus I was raised in the service of the church of the martyr St ...
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  • Christian eschatology named for its denial of a future thousand-year, physical ... amillennialism. Likewise, Dionysius of Alexandria, pope of Alexandria ...
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  • known as Milinda in Indian sources, was one of the Indo-Greek rulers in northern ... for his open-minded dialogues with followers of other religions. ...
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  • Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of ... presuppositions: Given the vast magnitude of divinity, it is assumed that ...
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  • The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... Edessa, Constantinople, Athens, Antioch, Alexandria, and other centers of learning ...
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  • also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the ... The almanac is a natural byproduct of the calender and serves as ...
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  • Marcion of Sinope (ca. 110-160 C.E.) was a Christian theologian who ... Marcion was deemed a heretic for his rejection of the whole Hebrew ...
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  • ) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations ... go on to devote the most productive years of his life to opposing Macedon ...
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  • North Africa—located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis across from the ... Originally a settlement of Phoenician colonists, Carthage grew into ...
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