Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks
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Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks

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Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks

About this book

Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist in the Spanish Civil War, before her tragic early death in England at the age of thirty-four. Her work spans an astonishing variety of subjects, from ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity to oppression, political freedom and French national identity.

Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks sees Weil apply her unique and piercing intellect to early Greek thought, where she finds fundamental precursors to Christian religious ideas. She argues, provocatively, that concepts fundamental to Christianity such as incarnation, redemption, suffering and resurrection are Greek as well as Christian and that there is much we can learn, spiritually and philosophically, from their entwinement.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Christopher Hamilton.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032534008
eBook ISBN
9781000964950
Edition
1
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Author Biography
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition
  9. Editor’s Note
  10. 1 God’s Quest for Man
  11. 2 The Laments of Electra and the Recognition of Orestes
  12. 3 Antigone
  13. 4 The Iliad, Poem of Might: Homer
  14. 5 Zeus and Prometheus
  15. 6 Prometheus
  16. 7 God in Plato
  17. 8 Divine Love in Creation
  18. 9 The Symposium of Plato
  19. 10 The Republic
  20. 11 The Pythagorean Doctrine
  21. 12 A Sketch of a History of Greek Science
  22. Index