Participation in the Divine: A Philosophical History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era (Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism)

Frontmatter
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	1 - The Lord Is One
	2 - The Place and Scope of Participation in the Divine in the Thought of Plato
	3 - Origen on Participation
4 - Forms, Intellects, and Angels
Plotinus on Participation
	5 - Participation in the Divine in Gregory of Nyssa
6 - Augustine’s “Illumination” Theory as the Natural Participation of the Human Mind
Correcting Bonaventure and Gilson via Plotinus and Marius Victorinus
	7 - The Principle of Cosmic Unification in the Athenian School of Platonism
	8 - St. Maximus the Confessor on Participation
	9 - Participation in Medieval Platonism
10 - Participation as God’s Indwelling
Aquinas’ Neoplatonic Systematisation of Aristotle for Participation in the Divine
	11 - Some Late Medieval Discussions of Participation in the Divine
	12 - Music, Temperance, and Participation in Marsilio Ficino
	13 - Richard Hooker’s Metaphysics of Divine Participation
14 - The Transcendence of Holiness
Divine Goodness and Human Freedom in Henry More’s Critique of Baruch de Spinoza
15 - Ralph Cudworth on Causality and Substantial Forms
Towards a New Theory of Causation
16 - The Romantic Legacy
Participation as Reciprocity
17 - Participation Revived and Revised
The Speculative Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead
Index