Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom

Winner of the Journal of the History of Ideas's Morris D. Forkosch prize This book traces the development thought about God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius, and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The resulst is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western churches.

Author: David Bradshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780521035569
ISBN10: 0521035562
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Ancient & Classical
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Medieval
- Philosophy | Religious

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