Plutarch's Reception in the Church Fathers

Huian, Georgiana (2022). Plutarch's Reception in the Church Fathers. In: Hirsch-Luipold, Rainer (ed.) Plutarch and the New Testament in Their Religio-Philosophical Contexts. Bridging Discourses in the World of the Early Roman Empire. Brill's Plutarch Studies: Vol. 9 (pp. 212-236). Leiden-Boston: Brill 10.1163/9789004505070_012

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Plutarch’s reception in the Church Fathers is a field inviting thorough investigation and reflection. This paper proposes, firstly, a brief mapping of the methodological questions and current findings achieved in this field. Secondly, it addresses Plutarch’s presence in the Church Fathers through common themes and topoi, similarities in argumentation, borrowing of exempla, and the use of common conceptual frames. Analysing some writings of the Greek and Latin Fathers of the fourth and fifth century, I intend to show that the references to Plutarch range from direct influence to implicit polemic, touching the treatment of ethical, cosmological, and theological themes.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Catholic Theology
01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Catholic Theology > Systematic Theology, Ecumenical Theology, Practical Theology

UniBE Contributor:

Huian, Georgiana

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 180 Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy
200 Religion > 230 Christianity & Christian theology
200 Religion > 240 Christian practice & observance
200 Religion > 270 History of Christianity

ISBN:

978-90-04-50507-0

Series:

Brill's Plutarch Studies

Publisher:

Brill

Language:

English

Submitter:

Georgiana Huian

Date Deposited:

30 Mar 2022 13:04

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:14

Publisher DOI:

10.1163/9789004505070_012

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Patristics, History of Christianity, Early Christianity, Augustine, Gregory of Nazianzus, Plutarch, Ancient Cosmologies, John Chrysostom, Basil of Caesarea, St Jerome, Virtue, Education in Late Antiquity

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/167005

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/167005

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