Marsilio Ficino's Platonic evangelising was eminently successful and widely influential. His 'Platonic Theology' is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.
Renaissance Thought and Its Sources. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Pays special attention to Platonism. ———. Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1956. Important essays on ...
Kenney focuses especially on Plotinus's novel concept of deity, arguing that it constitutes a type of mystical monotheism based upon an ultimate and inclusive divine One beyond description or discursive knowledge.
This book presents a philosophical position examined philosophically.
Renaissance Thought and Its Sources . New York : Columbia Univer- sity Press , 1979. Pays special attention to Platonism . - . Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters . Rome : Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura , 1956. Important essays ...
This book presents a philosophical position examined philosophically.
""This book contains a careful, thorough, and where necessary skeptical as regards doubtful evidence (especially in the case of Plato and the Old Academy) of the beginnings in European thought of the negative or apophatic way of thinking ...
14 Cf. Johannes Wenck, De ignota litteratura, ed. Jasper Hopkins in Nicholas of Cusa's Debate with John Wenck. A Translation and an Appraisal of 'De ignota litteratura' and 'Apologia doctae ignorantiae' (Minneapolis: Banning Press, ...
The Platonic Theology
This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato.
This is the first comprehensive monograph in English about Ioane Petrisi and his work of transposition of Proclus' Elements of Theology to the Georgian language."--Foreword, p. xi.