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Christoplatonism is a term used to refer to a dualism opined by Plato, which holds spirit is good but matter is evil, [20] which influenced some Christian churches, though the Bible's teaching directly contradicts this philosophy and thus it receives constant criticism from many teachers in the Christian Church today.
Catholics responded at the Council of Trent that only the Church and its traditions could authoritatively interpret the meaning of the Bible. The European wars of religion (16th – 17th c.) were in part about religious authority and whose interpretation of the Bible was legitimate, and thus allegory became a political issue.
Platon was a fairly common name (31 instances are known from Athens alone), [17] including people named before Plato was born. Robin Waterfield states that Plato was not a nickname, but a perfectly normal name, and "the common practice of naming a son after his grandfather was reserved for the eldest son", not Plato. [ 13 ]
Greatest Heroes of the Bible: The Story of Esther (1979, TV episode) Animated Stories from the Bible: Esther (1993, TBN, TV episode) Esther (1999, TNT Bible Series) Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen (2000) Esther and the King (2006, Liken Bible Series) One Night with the King (2006) For Such a Time (2010) The Book of Esther (2013)
Commentaries on Plato refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the works of Plato.Many Platonist philosophers in the centuries following Plato sought to clarify and summarise his thoughts, but it was during the Roman era, that the Neoplatonists, in particular, wrote many commentaries on individual dialogues of Plato ...
Plato (Ancient Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn; c. 428/427 – c. 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the trio of ancient Greeks including Socrates and Aristotle credited with laying the philosophical foundations of Western culture.
Platon’s new book, The Defenders: Heroes of the Fight for Global Human Rights, is a visual commemoration of powerful figures around the world. The book, weighing in at nearly 9.5 pounds and 560 ...
Plato described the universe as a living being in his dialogue Timaeus (30b–d): . Thus, then, in accordance with the likely account, we must declare that this Cosmos has verily come into existence as a Living Creature endowed with soul and reason [...] a Living Creature, one and visible, containing within itself all the living creatures which are by nature akin to itself.