The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy

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List of contributors
1 Introduction
Section 1 Themes
	2 Sources of religious knowledge
	3 Nature
	4 Time and eternity
	5 Creation in Early Christianity
	6 Providence and evil
	7 Ethics
	8 Logic and religious language
	9 The mystical element
Section 2 Doctrines
	10 The Trinity
	11 The philosophy of the incarnation
	12 The philosophy of the resurrection in Early Christianity
	13 Biblical hermeneutics
Section 3 Schools
	14 The Presocratics
	15 Socrates and Plato in the fathers
	16 Aristotle and his school
	17 Christians and Stoics
	18 Epicureans
	19 Cynics and Christians
	20 Sceptics
	21 Philo of Alexandria
	22 Orpheus, Mithras, Hermes
	23 Middle Platonists and Pythagoreans
	24 Pagan and Christian philosophy: Plotinus, Iamblichus and Christian philosophical practice
	25 The philosophy of the later Neoplatonists: an interaction with Christian thought
Section 4 Individuals
	26 Justin and Athenagoras
	27 Tatian, Theophilus of Antioch and Irenaeus of Lyons
	28 Clement of Alexandria
	29 Tertullian and Cyprian
	30 “Hippolytus” and Epiphanius of Salamis
	31 Origen and philosophy
	32 The Sethians and the Gnostics of Plotinus
	33 Arnobius and Lactantius
	34 Philosophy in Eusebius and Marcellus
	35 Arius and Athanasius
	36 Marius Victorinus
	37 Philosophy in Hilary of Poitiers and Ambrose of Milan
	38 Eunomius of Cyzicus and Gregory of Nyssa
	39 Didymus the Blind and Evagrius of Pontus
	40 Synesius of Cyrene: philosophy and poetry “sharing the same temple”
	41 Augustine of Hippo
	42 Cyril of Alexandria
	43 Theodoret of Cyrrhus
	44 Boethius: the first Christian philosopher in the Latin West?
	45 John Philoponus
	46 Dionysius the Areopagite
	47 Christian philosophy in Severus of Antioch and Leontius of Byzantium
Bibliography of primary texts
Index