Aristotle East and West
Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom

This is a powerful comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom.

David Bradshaw (Author)

9780521035569, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 March 2007

312 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg

'This book is …worthy of deep respect.' The Westminster Theological Journal

This book traces the development of conceptions of 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 result 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.

Preface
1. The Aristotelian beginnings
2. The prime mover
3. Between Aristotle and Plotinus
4. Plotinus and the theory of two acts
5. The Plotinian heritage in the West
6. Gods, demons and theurgy
7. The formation of the eastern tradition
8. The flowering of the eastern tradition
9. Palamas and Aquinas
10. Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Orthodox & Oriental Churches [HRCC8], The Early Church [HRCC1], Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]