Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Philosophical Roots
6. The Iconic Structure of Reality in the Platonic Tradition and Its Christian Reinterpretation 9
7. The Pattern and the Image in Plotinus: Rethinking Plato’s Conflict with the Poets 39
8. Philo of Alexandria
9. Day One and the Intelligible World: An Alexandrian Exegetical Tradition? 57
10. An Image Ascending to its Archetype According to Philo of Alexandria 79
11. Platonic Patternism and the Ideal Creation: The Nachleben of Philo’s De Opificio Mundi 15 – 25 in Alexandrian Christianity 103
12. Pre-Nicene Christian Authors
13. The Copy and the Revelation: Action and Contents of the Logos in Clement of Alexandria 121
14. Servant Mysterium Trinitatis: The Role of the Seraphim (Isa 6:2–3) in Concealing and Revealing the Nature of God in Origen’s Work and its Sources 139
15. Wisdom as Structure/Summation of Insight(s) in Origen’s Commentary on the Gospel according to John: Origen of Alexandria and his Exegesis of Prov 8:22 161
16. Christian Authors of the Fourth Century and Beyond
17. Image of Christ in the Letter to Constantia: Eusebius’ Authorship and Origen’s Legacy 193
18. The World as an Idea and Reality: Ambrose’s Concept of Creation 219
19. Exegesis of Scripture in the Pseudo-Athanasian Disputatio contra Arium (CPG 2250): Allegory, Paradeigma, and Context 243
20. About the Authors 257
21. Index of Biblical Citations 259
22. Index of Ancient Works 263
23. Index of Patristic Works 271
24. Index of Ancient Names 281
25. Index of Modern Authors 285