The Demiurge in Ancient Thought: Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators

ISBN: 9781107428096 出版年：2015 页码：352 Carl Sean O'Brien Cambridge University Press

1. Demiurgy and other approaches to world-generation 2. Plato's Timaeus, the original concept of the Demiurge and the exegesis of the dialogue 3. Logos into Demiurge: Philo of Alexandria as witness to developments in contemporary Platonism 4. Plutarch and the Demiurge of Egyptian mythology 5. A simplified understanding of God: Maximus of Tyre 6. Numenius and his doctrine of three Gods 7. On the fringes of philosophy: speculations in Hermetism 8. The ignorant Demiurge: Valentinus and the Gnostics 9. Origen, the Demiurge and Christian theology 10. Plotinus and the demise of the Demiurge 11. Concluding remarks.