Christian Platonism and the Debate about Afterlife: John of Scythopolis and Maximus the Confessor on the Inactivity of the Disembodied Soul

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dc.contributor.authorKrausmuller D.
dc.date.accessioned14.07.201910:50:10
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-16T20:42:35Z
dc.date.available14.07.201910:50:10
dc.date.available2019-07-16T20:42:35Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.department[Belirlenecek]en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the sixth and seventh centuries the belief in an active afterlife and its corollaries, the cult of the saints and the care of the dead, came under attack by a group of people who claimed that the souls could not function without their bodies. Some defenders of the traditional point of view sought to rebut this argument through recourse to the Platonic concept of the self-moved soul, which is not in need of the body. However, the fit between Platonism and traditional notions of the afterlife was not as complete as might first be thought. This article focuses on two Christian thinkers, John of Scythopolis and Maximus the Confessor, who were deeply influenced by Platonic ideas. In his Scholia on the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius John states clearly that after death the souls of ordinary human beings are inactive whereas the souls of the spiritual elite have entered the realm of eternal realities, which is entirely separate from this world. The case of Maximus is more complex. One of his letters is a spirited defence of the posthumous activity of the soul. However, in his spiritual writings he outlines a conceptual framework that shows a marked resemblance to the position of John of Scythopolis. © 2015 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/18177565-00111p21en_US
dc.identifier.endpage260en_US
dc.identifier.issn1817-7530
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84988477956en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3en_US
dc.identifier.startpage242en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00111p21
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12514/1170
dc.identifier.volume11en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBrill Academic Publishersen_US
dc.relation.ispartofScriniumen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKonferans Öğesi - Uluslararası - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectafterlifeen_US
dc.subjectChristian Platonismen_US
dc.subjectJohn of Scythopolisen_US
dc.subjectMaximus the Confessoren_US
dc.subjectself-movementen_US
dc.titleChristian Platonism and the Debate about Afterlife: John of Scythopolis and Maximus the Confessor on the Inactivity of the Disembodied Soulen_US
dc.typeConference Objecten_US

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