neo-Platonists

But time and again in contention with neo-Platonists, Gnostics and other spiritualizers, advocates of the more physical interpretation win out over the more vaporous explanations.

Rethinking The Resurrection 2008

Elders among them will readily recognize the ancient paternity of his arguments: they reach back to Thomas Aquinas, and even earlier to the Christian neo-Platonists and the pagan Greeks.

Uniting Faith And Reason 2008

This seemed perfectly reasonable to a number of naturalists, astronomers, and wacky neo-Platonists who felt that the Sun should be the center of physical creation as God is the center of spiritual creation.

A Month of Writers, Day Two: Charles Stross « Whatever 2007

These and still more wonderful transformations were readily effected by the ingenuity of Stoics and neo-Platonists in the two or three centuries before and after

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Mix a little pseudo-science and theology, plus starry-eyed neo-Platonists of 2nd-century Alexandria

American Association for the Advancement of Science statement on evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2006

His writings reflect this in its mingling of philosophical and theological language, invoking Aristotle and the neo-Platonists side by side with the poet of the psalms.

Dante Alighieri Wetherbee, Winthrop 2006

Diffused by Arab and Byzantine culture into medieval Europe , these esoteric currents experienced a marked revival through the Florentine neo-Platonists of the late fifteenth century.

Interiority, imagination, and an extension into cosmological speculation Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

Dante seems to emphasize this double status by mingling theological and philosophical language, and invoking Aristotle and the neo-Platonists side by side with the poet of the Psalms.

Dante Alighieri Wetherbee, Winthrop 2006

'Our history has never been a march, in any of the accepted meanings or variations of that word: the straight line of the evolutionists, the zigzag of the dialecticians, the circle of the neo-Platonists. '

Landscape Architect Berman, Paul 2001

He was heir to Philo, the neo-Platonists, and Augustine.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964