neoplatonism

• The ascetic sentiment was stimulated and was spreading on account of the ideas of neoplatonism, the increasing confusion in the Christian body, the excitement and anxiety of a period of social decline, and finally on account of the need to provide other means of expending the passionate love of God which had formerly driven Christians to martyrdom. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• With the Sylph at anchor, we lay off Muloa for three nights, and Leavitt gave us our fill of Farquharson, along with innumerable digressions about volcanoes, neoplatonism, the Single Tax, and what not. —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• With the _Sylph_ at anchor, we lay off Muloa for three nights, and Leavitt gave us our fill of Farquharson, along with innumerable digressions about volcanoes, neoplatonism, the Single Tax, and what not. —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• He had made for himself a curious personal religion, a bizarre mixture of theosophy and neoplatonism and Bergsonian philosophy, —  Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
• These centuries, with their potent influence of neoplatonism on Christianity, appear to have been sterile enough in medicine. —  The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913

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