Explaining the Cosmos —— Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza

----- 揭秘宇宙：古加沙晚期的创作与文化互动

ISBN: 9780199337484 出版年：2014 页码：257 Champion, Michael W Oxford University Press

Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 Culture and Ideas, Conflict and Identity 1.2 Introducing Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius Part One: Creating Gazan Cultures 2 Late-Antique Gaza: Teachers, Monks and Philosophers 2.1 Social and Material Contours of Late-Antique Gaza 2.2 Gazan Rhetorical Schools within Late-Antique Education 2.3 Gazan Monasteries and the Schools 2.4 Conclusions 3 Gazan Culture Performed and Transformed by Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius 3.1 Gaza through Aeneas' Letters 3.2 Creating Cultures through the Creation Debates 3.3 Reconfiguring Neoplatonic Claims to Power through Narrative and Genre 3.4 Conflict and Complexity Part Two: Explaining Creation 4 Christian and Neoplatonic Creations 4.1 Christian Creations 4.2 Gazans and Contemporary Neoplatonism 4.3 Neoplatonic Creations 4.4 Building on Different Traditions 5 Procopius on Creation and Eternity 5.1 Problems of a Commentator 5.2 God and Matter 5.3 Matter, Freedom and Determinism 5.4 Time and Cause 5.5 Theodicy 5.6 Problems and Solutions 6 Aeneas and Zacharias on Creation and Eternity 6.1 Matter, Cause and Time 6.2 Creation and Eschatology 6.3 Creation and Ethics 6.4 Creation and Triunity 6.5 Creation and the Soul 6.6 Monastic Problems: Aeneas and Origenism 6.7 Problems and Solutions 7 Conclusions: Creation Creating Cultures 7.1 Creatio Continua 7.2 Creation of Ideas and Local Cultures Bibliography Index Locorum General Index