Logos and Trinity: Patterns of Platonist Influence on Early Christianity IN The Philosophy in Christianity
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. Cambridge University Press (
1989)
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Abstract
A study of the influence of Platonism on two central areas of Early Christian doctrine, the relation of God the Son to the Father, and the mutual relations of the persons of the Trinity. In the former case, logos-theory and the figure of the demiurge are important; the latter, particularly Porphyry’s theory of the relation between Being, Life and Mind