期刊名称:The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
印刷版ISSN:1872-5082
电子版ISSN:1872-5473
出版年度:2018
卷号:12
期号:1
页码:39-50
DOI:10.1163/18725473-12341396
出版社:BRILL
摘要:The paper deals with an anonymous Hymn to God, which is attributed to Gregory of Nazianzus by some authors, but was most probably composed by a Christian Neoplatonist such as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The paper explores the hymn’s relation to Neoplatonic theories of prayer and shows that these affinities are broader in scope than has previously been recognised. Some Pagan and Christian Neoplatonists, including the author of the Hymn to God, seem to have shared the idea of a cosmic prayer by which all beings tend towards God, a prayer founded on the knowledge of the ‘signatures’ (synthemata) that God rooted in our souls.
关键词:Neoplatonism; Theodorus of Asine; Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite; prayer; Gregory of Nazianzus; hymn