Anonymi Monophysitae theosophia : : an attempt at reconstruction / / by Pier Franco Beatrice.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 56
• VerfasserIn: Beatrice, Pier Franco,
• TeilnehmendeR: Beatrice, Pier Franco, 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, Massachusetts ;, Koln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 2001.; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; Volume 56.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The Theosophy , written by an anonymous Monophysite theologian in the early years of the sixth century CE, is a work in four books with a final world chronicle. Heir to a long apologetic tradition, it aims at demonstrating that there is a basic harmony between Christian faith and pagan theology. For this reason its author quotes at length numerous pagan prophecies of the Christian doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation. This volume proposes the first comprehensive critical edition of all the extant fragments of this work, in an attempt to reconstruct the general framework and to understand the inner logic of its composition. Thanks to this edition, which is bound to become the starting point for any future investigation, the Theosophy has now been put in circulation and made available for further research.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- ’Eπιτoμή -- ΘEOΣOΦIA -- Πρооἰμιоv -- Bιβλίoν α’. Xρησμἰ τῶν ‛Eλληνικῶν θεῶν -- Bιβλίoν β’. ΘεOλOλἰαι τῶν πσρ’ ‛’Eλλησι κσἰ Aἰγνπτἰoις σOΦῶν -- Bιβλίoν γ’. Xρησμἰ τῶν ‛Σιβνλλῶν -- Bιβλίoν δ’. Xρήσεις ‛Yστάσπoν -- Xρoνικόν -- INDEX LOCORUM SACRAE SCRIPTURAE -- INDEX FONTIUM IN TEXTU LAUDATORUM -- SUPPLEMENTS TO VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE.