Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius

by Donald Russell and John Dillon

Book Overview

50 years before Philoponus, two Christians from Gaza, seeking to influence Alexandrian Christians, defended the Christian belief in resurrection and the finite duration of the world, and attacked rival Neoplatonist views. Aeneas addresses an unusual version of the food chain argument against resurrection, that our bodies will get eaten by other creatures. Zacharias attacks the Platonist examples of synchronous creation, which were the production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472558014
• ISBN13: 9781472558015
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"