Escaping Plato’s Cave: Some Platonic Metaphors in Symeon the New Theologian
This article proposes that the imagery Symeon the New Theologian employs for expressing his mystical experience in several passages of his Hymns of Divine Love might have been inspired by the texts of Plato and the Platonic tradition. The Hymns showing the traces of St. Symeon’s rethinking of the al...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Scrinium
Year: 2015, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 181-196 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Symeon the New Theologian
Hymns of Divine Love
Plato's Cave
wings of soul
Paradise of virtues
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