From Protology to Eschatology: Competing Views on the Origin and the End of the Cosmos in Platonism and Christian Thought

Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction • Joseph Verheyden / Geert Roskam / Gerd Van Riel
Eternalism in Aristotle and After • Andrea Falcon
L’interprétation proclienne de la création des âmes humaines dans le Timée de Platon • Alain Lernould
The (Meta)physics of Eating One’s Children: Proclus’ Interpretation of the Myth of Er • Marije Martijn
Éternité ou génération? La controverse entre Simplicius et Jean Philopon sur l’origine du monde • Marc-Antoine Gavray
From Eternal Life to the Word That Was in the Beginning: The Logic of Johannine Theology • Jörg Frey
Protology and Eschatology in Gnostic Thought • Einar Thomassen
“Where the Beginning Is, There Shall Be the End”: Protology and Personal Eschatology in the Platonizing Sethian Apocalypses Zostrianos and Allogenes • John D. Turner
“Above the Starry Canopy”: Spatial and Non-Spatial Patristic Perspectives on the Christian Hope for Afterlife • Benjamin Gleede
“Mind the Ontological Gap!”: The Collateral Loss of the Pauline-Stoic Creation “From God” in the Joint Attack of the Arian-Nicene Creation “From Nothing” on the Platonic Creation “From Disorderly Matter” • George van Kooten
List of Contributors
Index of Ancient Authors and Texts
Index of Modern Authors