Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Johan Leemans , Geert Roskam , and Peter Van Deun -- Copyright Page / Johan Leemans , Geert Roskam , and Peter Van Deun -- Figures and Table / Johan Leemans , Geert Roskam , and Peter Van Deun -- Chapter 1 Introduction / Johan Leemans , Geert Roskam , and Peter Van Deun -- Part 1 Human Goal and Divine Perfection in Plato and the Platonist Tradition -- Chapter 2 Assimilation to God and Practical Life from Plato to Plotinus / Paolo Torri -- Chapter 3 The God-like Plotinus and Proclus / Robbert M. van den Berg -- Chapter 4 One Ideal, Various Paths to Perfection / Thibaut Lejeune -- Chapter 5 More than Perfect? / Arthur Oosthout -- Part 2 Human Goal and Divine Perfection in Early Christian Thought -- Chapter 6 Christian versus Pagan Perfection / George Karamanolis -- Chapter 7 The Reader, the Bible, and the Path to Perfection / Marco Rizzi -- Chapter 8 Love’s Early Christian Lives / Paul M. Blowers -- Chapter 9 On the Concept of ‘Perfection’ in Maximus Confessor’s Genuine Capita Collections ( ThOec , Car , CapXV , CapX ) / Pietro D’Agostino -- Part 3 Models of Perfection: Greek and Christian -- Chapter 10 Human Perfection in Plutarch / Laurens van der Wiel -- Chapter 11 Dealing with Models and Virtue / Thomas Valgaeren -- Chapter 12 Perfect Imitators of Christ? / Peter Gemeinhardt -- Part 4 Pursuits of Perfection: Greek and Christian -- Chapter 13 Nunc Est Sudandum / Geert Roskam -- Chapter 14 Galen on Human Perfection and Enhancement / Teun Tieleman -- Chapter 15 Perfection in the Two Ways Tradition / Julien C. H. Smith -- Chapter 16 A Thousand Pains and a Thousand Crowns / Olympe De Backer and Johan Leemans -- Chapter 17 The Road to Perfection in the Apocalypse of Paul / Jan N. Bremmer -- Chapter 18 Perfection – a Main (Educational) Topic in John Cassian’s Conferences ? / Dorothee Schenk -- Chapter 19 “The Perfect Imperfect Perfection of the Perfects” / Maxim Venetskov -- Back Matter -- Index Locorum / Johan Leemans , Geert Roskam , and Peter Van Deun -- Index Nominum / Johan Leemans , Geert Roskam , and Peter Van Deun -- Index Rerum / Johan Leemans , Geert Roskam , and Peter Van Deun.

In the post-Enlightenment world, philosophy and religion have come to occupy different, even opposed, domains. But how were they related before this? What were the commonalities and dissimilarities between them? Did they already contain the seeds of their later division – or do they still share enough in common to allow meaningful conversation between them? This new Brill series “Ancient Philosophy & Religion” provides an interdisciplinary platform for monographs, edited volumes and commentaries on this issue. It is edited by two leading scholars in the fields it brings together, George Boys-Stones (Ancient Philosophy) and George van Kooten (New Testament Studies), and is supported by an editorial board whose members are known for their work in the area. It invites scholars of ancient philosophy, Classics, early Judaism, ancient Judaism, New Testament & early Christianity, and all other relevant fields, to showcase their research on ancient philosophy and religion and to contribute to the debate. The series’ subject matter is symbolized by its icon, used by courtesy and permission of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. It represents a dialogue between philosophers, as shown on one of the reliefs of the funeral sacrificial table (mensa) from the “House of Proclus” on the Southern slope of the Acropolis at Athens, excavated in 1955. Dating from 350-325 BC, the reliefs of the mensa depict, after the lamentation and the farewell, the posthumous encounter of the deceased with the philosophers (1950 NAM 90). The editors very much welcome proposals for monographs, edited volumes and even commentaries on relevant texts.

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