Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom

by David Bradshaw

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521035562
• ISBN13: 9780521035569
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"