When people prayed, they expected their gods to come, wrote Robin Lane Fox, providing the impetus for this volume of collected essays exploring the concept of how the ancients “envisioned” the deities within various ancient religious traditions. The perspectives of Judaism, Gnosticism, Syriac Christianity, Byzantium, and Classical Greco-Roman religion and philosophy are considered. Specific emphasis is given to phenomena such as dreams, visions, and initiatory rites mediating the divine encounter.
| ISBN: | 9781611432510 |
| Publication date: | 10th January 2013 |
| Author: | Jared Calaway |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought |
| Genres: |
Religion: general |