عنوان

Eusebius C. Hier. 6.5 on Man and Fowl:

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عنوان اصلي

Eusebius C. Hier. 6.5 on Man and Fowl:

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[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

An Instance of Christian-Pagan Dialogue on a Theurgic Ritual

نام نخستين پديدآور

Konstantinos Spanoudakis

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Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

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Eusebius (C. Hier. 6.5), relying on the universal law of locus proprius, rejects the practice of men acting like winged creatures. The allusion appears to be specifically to a Chaldaean ritual in which initiates imitate the cries and other sounds of birds rising for flight in an apparent enactment of the 'rising' soul. Greek and Coptic sources (Damascius, Hermias and Shenoute) help reconstruct the ritual. This relates to the image of Apollonius of Tyana as theurgist and magician, but originally it may have been part of the controversies about Paul's dogma of resurrection (1Thess. 4.17). Porphyry (C. Chr. fr. 35 Harn.) employs the same arguments as Eusebius to ridicule Paul's notion about men caught up in clouds to meet God in air. Rather than taking this as a matter of coincidence, it would seem that Eusebius, who wrote an extensive riposte (now lost) to Porphyry's tract, probably replied to Porphyry's ridicule of Paul by counter-ridiculing the pagan flight-ritual. Eusebius (C. Hier. 6.5), relying on the universal law of locus proprius, rejects the practice of men acting like winged creatures. The allusion appears to be specifically to a Chaldaean ritual in which initiates imitate the cries and other sounds of birds rising for flight in an apparent enactment of the 'rising' soul. Greek and Coptic sources (Damascius, Hermias and Shenoute) help reconstruct the ritual. This relates to the image of Apollonius of Tyana as theurgist and magician, but originally it may have been part of the controversies about Paul's dogma of resurrection (1Thess. 4.17). Porphyry (C. Chr. fr. 35 Harn.) employs the same arguments as Eusebius to ridicule Paul's notion about men caught up in clouds to meet God in air. Rather than taking this as a matter of coincidence, it would seem that Eusebius, who wrote an extensive riposte (now lost) to Porphyry's tract, probably replied to Porphyry's ridicule of Paul by counter-ridiculing the pagan flight-ritual.

تاريخ نشر

2010

توصيف ظاهري

31-53

عنوان

Vigiliae Christianae

شماره جلد

64/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0720

اصطلاح موضوعی

Apollonius of Tyana

اصطلاح موضوعی

Chaldaean rituals

اصطلاح موضوعی

Eusebius Against Hierocles

اصطلاح موضوعی

locus proprius

اصطلاح موضوعی

Porphyry Against the Christians

اصطلاح موضوعی

resurrection

اصطلاح موضوعی

theurgic birds

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Konstantinos Spanoudakis

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/004260310X12584264873923

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y