neo-Platonist

In fact, one of Hypatia's closest friends was Synesius of Cyrene, the neo-Platonist Christian Bishop of Ptolemais.

Matt J. Rossano: The Galileo Affair: Emblematic Or Exceptional? Matt J. Rossano 2011

I would characterize this as a neo-Platonist idea for the benevolent philosopher-king.

Matthew Yglesias » More On Sunstein 2009

And reviews: one reader with a master's degree in theoretical physics complains that the book was supposed to be "light summer reading" but instead was "really hard going," and another says that Penrose uses the book "in a polemical manner to justify his neo-Platonist view of mathematics."

PHYSICS: DOSE OF 'REALITY' 2007

Somebody who wanted to recast the entire Mythos as a Spenglerian, neo-Platonist, Gnostic myth-cycle could do worse than build on the frozen foundations of Lomar.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

A.D. He was a pupil of the neo-Platonist Plotinus.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

In Albert he encountered a wide-ranging encyclopedism which included original work, experimental and theoretical, in natural science, and treated Aristotelian natural philosophy and psychology in the light of a neo-Platonism derived from Arabic philosophers and such Greco-Arab sources as the Liber de Causis, as well as the Christian neo-Platonist tradition of the Pseudo-Dionysius.

Dante Alighieri Wetherbee, Winthrop 2006

This is very important, for here Augustine cuts himself off completely from his neo-Platonist background... without God's condescension to us in the Incarnation to respond to, we will either - in Augustine's view - be provoked to despair by our awareness of sin, or seek to ascend to God under the inspiration of pride.

Love is the highest form of knowing Sam Norton 2006

We find similar ideas in St. Augustine, the most important Christian neo-Platonist neo-Platonism is nothing but Vedanta as also in the Gita.

What is the destiny of man? Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

It has two parents - Moses going up the Mountain, and Plato's allegory of the cave - and it's the latter which brings out its relevance to Pirsig, for he is a neo-Platonist.

Dust and bones Sam Norton 2005

Some Jews and Christians believe that Kabbalah is heretical occult and is influenced by Babylonian pagan practices during the Babylonian captivity or earlier mystery religions or Greek thought along neo-Platonist and pythagorian.

Dart slated 2005