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| Product ID: | 9781032533995 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Classics |
| Title: | Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks |
| Authors: | Author: Simone Weil |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Ancient history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Christianity, Indigenous religions, spiritual beliefs and mythologies of the Americas, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Christianity, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient Greece |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks Weil apply her unique, piercing intellect to early Greek thought, where she finds precursors to Christianity. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Christopher Hamilton. Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist in the Spanish Civil War, before her tragic early death in England at the age of thirty-four. Her work spans an astonishing variety of subjects, from ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity to oppression, political freedom and French national identity. Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks sees Weil apply her unique and piercing intellect to early Greek thought, where she finds fundamental precursors to Christian religious ideas. She argues, provocatively, that concepts fundamental to Christianity such as incarnation, redemption, suffering and resurrection are Greek as well as Christian and that there is much we can learn, spiritually and philosophically, from their entwinement. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Christopher Hamilton. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-28 |