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Neoplatonism and Jewish thought [electronic resource]

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Title Neoplatonism and Jewish thought [electronic resource] / edited by Lenn E. Goodman.
Publisher Albany : State University of New York Press
Creation Date c1992
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-434) and index.
English
Content ""Front Matter""
""Half Title Page""
""Title Page""
""Copyright Page""
""Table of Contents""
""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS""
""PREFACE""
""EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION : Thematizing a Tradition""
""Content""
""Philo's Conception of the Divine Nature""
""Solomon Ibn Gabirol's Doctrine of Intelligible Matter""
""Parallel Structures in the Metaphysics of Iamblichus and Ibn Gabiror""
""Ibn Gabirol: The Sage Among the Schoolmen""
""From What is One and Simple only What is One and Simple Can Come to Be·""
""Maimonides and Neoplatonism: Challenge and Response""
""Maimonidean Naturalism""
""The Virtue of Faith""""Why not Pursue the Metaphor of Artisan and View God's Knowledge as Practical?""
""Matter as Creature and Matter as the Source of Evil: Maimonides and Aquinas""
""Divine Unity in Maimonides, the Tosafists and Me'iri""
""Platonic Themes in Gersonides' Doctrine of the Active Intellect""""
""Utterance and Ineffability in Jewish Neoplatonism""
""Self-Contraction of the Godhead in Kabbalistic Theology·""
""Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance""
""Love and Intellect in Leone Ebreo: The Joys and Pains of Human Passion""
""Spinoza, Neopiatonic Kabbalist?""""The Psychodynamics of Neoplatonic Ontology""
""Back Matter ""
""Bibliography""
""The Contributors""
""INDEX""
Series Studies in Neoplatonism
v. 7
Extent 1 online resource (467 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010718857905171
MARC RECORDS
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