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3Alexander of Aphrodisias : a source of Origen’s philosophy?Philosophie Antique 14 237-289. 2014.Alexandre d’Aphrodise et Origène sont deux philosophes et professeurs de philosophie semi-contemporains qui composaient le même genre d’œuvres. Origène était un philosophe chrétien, ancien élève d’Ammonius Saccas, le maître de Plotin. Il est très probable qu’Origène connaissait les écrits d’Alexandre d’Aphrodise, qui étaient lus à l’école de Plotin, et fut inspiré par eux. Beaucoup d’éléments soutiennent ma thèse. Par exemple, le Traité des Principes d’Origène dans sa structure est probablement …Read more
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2Unconditional forgiveness in Christianity? : some reflections on ancient Christian sources and practicesIn Christel Fricke (ed.), The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays, Routledge. 2011.
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2Aristotle and individual forms: The grammar of the possessive pronouns at metaphysicsλ.5, 1071a27–9Classical Quarterly 56 (1): 105-112. 2006.
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2Evagrius between Origen, the Cappadocians, and NeoplatonismPeeters. 2017.This volume collects the thoroughly revised and expanded versions of the papers, with the relevant response, presented at two interrelated workshops at the 2015 Oxford Patristics Conference, on theology and philosophy between Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, and on theology in Evagrius Ponticus between Origen, the Cappadocians, and Neoplatonism. This volume contributes innova- tive research into core theological issues in Evagrius and the Cappadocians, also against the backdrop of Origen’s thought a…Read more
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2This essay investigates Clement’s terminology related to allegorical exegesis of Scripture (μυστήριον first of all, but also αἴνιγμα, τύπος, ἀλληγορία, παραβολή etc.), as well as theoretical and methodological issues related to Biblical allegoresis (i.e. the figural, spiritual exegesis of the Bible, which is taken to contain allegories or metaphorical, figural expressions), the influence of Stoic allegoresis of theological myths on Clement’s allegoresis of Scripture, and the impact of Philo’s Bi…Read more
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2Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms (edited book)Mohr Siebeck; WUNT: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament I 348. Pp. 373.. 2015.The authors of this volume elucidate the remarkable role played by religion in the shaping and reshaping of narrative forms in antiquity and late antiquity in a variety of ways. This is particularly evident in ancient Jewish and Christian narrative, which is in the focus of most of the contributions, but also in some “pagan” novels such as that of Heliodorus, which is dealt with as well in the third part of the volume, both in an illuminating comparison with Christian novels and in an inspiring …Read more
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2Paul on Apokatastasis: 1 Cor 15:24-28 and the Use of ScriptureIn Stanley Porter & Christopher Land (eds.), Paul and Scripture, Brill. 2019.
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1Apokatastasis and Epektasis in Hom. in Cant.: The Relation between Two Core Doctrines in Gregory and Roots in Origen, in: Gregory of Nyssa, In Canticum Canticorum. Commentary and Supporting Studies. Proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17-20 September 2014), ed. Giulio Maspero, Miguel Brugarolas, and Ilaria Vigorelli, Leiden: Brill, 2018, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 150, pp. 312–39.In Giulio Masepro (ed.), Gregory of Nyssa: In Canticum Canticorum. Commentary and Supporting Studies. Proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17-20 September 2014). pp. 312-339. 2018.
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1Evagrius Ponticus' Kephalaia GnostikaSBL. 2015.This innovative book, in its monographic introduction and systematic commentary (and English translation from the Syriac based on new readings from the ms.), provides a thorough reassessment of Evagrius’ philosophical theology, Christology, and anthropology. It argues, e.g., that Evagrius is authentically Origenian, not Origenistic, nor Christologically subordinationist, and Nyssen influenced him more than usually assumed. New linguistic evidence is adduced for the differentiation of bodies in …Read more
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1The Role of Allegory, Allegoresis, and Metaphor in Paul and OrigenJournal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 14 130-157. 2018.
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1‘The Father in the Son, the Son in the Father in the Gospel of John: Sources and Reception of Dynamic Unity in Middle and Neoplatonism, “Pagan” and Christian’, «Journal of the Bible and Its Reception» 7 (2020), pp. 31-66. DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2019-0012Journal of the Bible and Its Reception 7 (7): 31-66. 2020.
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Corpus HermeticumBompiani, Series: Il Pensiero Occidentale. pp. 1627. 2005.Translation, bibliography, commentary, and an updating essay including a translation from the Coptic text of, and a commentary on, the new Nag Hammadi Hermetica.
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Religion and Science in Gregory of Nyssa: The Unity of the Creative and Scientific LogosMarburg Journal of Religion 22. 2020.
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Il βασιλεύς come νόμος ἔμψυχος tra diritto naturale e diritto divino: spunti platonici del concetto e sviluppi di età imperiale e tardoantica (Marcello Gigante Prize 2006)Bibliopolis, Memoirs of the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies 34. 2006.Il presente studio si pone in ideale continuità con l’opera di Marcello Gigante Nomos Basileus, analisi fondamentale della nascita e delle interrelazioni tra diritto naturale, diritto divino e diritto positivo nel mondo greco, prendendo le mosse proprio dal punto in cui questi aveva interrotto la sua indagine, ossia sulle concezioni platoniche del nomos e le sue connessioni con il divino, l’anima e l’educazione. In Platone sono rintracciate le premesse teoretiche della concezione, poi diffusa in…Read more
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A reappraisal of Gregory Nyssen's thought on mind-body relations, with many new insights, analysis of sources and discussion of scholarship.
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"‘Pagan’ and Christian Platonism in Dionysius: The Double-Reference Scheme and Its Meaning", in Byzantine Platonists 284-1453, eds Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear, Theandrites: Studies in Byzantine Platonism and Christian Philosophy, Steubenville: Franciscan University Press, 2021.In Frederick Lauritzen & Sarah Klitenic Wear (eds.), Byzantine Platonists 284-1453, Franciscan University Press. 2021.
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This book analyses Eriugena’s Christian Platonic ideas on theology, cosmology, anthropology, epistemology, and ethics, and their sources in Patristic philosophical theology and ancient philosophy. The first part is devoted to Eriugena’s theology: thus, it focusses on God from a variety of perspectives, some of them also comparative in their nature. The second part consists in research into Eriugena's cosmology, anthropology, and ethics, including virtue ethics. The two large sections are interre…Read more
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Jesus of Nazareth, in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, digital edition, ed. Sander Goldberg, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, and Tim Whitmarsh, Oxford: OUP, 2021.Oxford Classical Dictionary. forthcoming.
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Caritone e la storiografia greca. Il 'tomanzo di Calliroe' come romanzo storico anticoACME: Annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Milano 53 (1): 43-62. 2000.
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The origins of philosophy: Greek or barbaric? The enigmatic myth of Dione's' Boristenitico'Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 99 (2): 185-214. 2007.
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The Question of Origen's Conversion and His Philosophico-Theological Lexicon of Epistrophē, Main Lecture, International Conference, Religious and Philosophical Conversion, Bonn University, 25-27 September 2018, in: Greek and Byzantine Philosophical Exegesis, ed. James B. Wallace and Athanasios Despotis, Leiden: Brill, 2021.In James B. Wallace & Athanasios Despotis (eds.), Greek and Byzantine Philosophical Exegesis, Brill Schoningh. 2022.
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Philosophical Allegoresis of Scripture in Philo and its Legacy in Gregory of NyssaThe Studia Philonica Annual 20 55-100. 2008.
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Terms for Eternity. Αἰώνιος and ἀίδιος in Classical and Christian AuthorsGorgias. 2007; 2011; 2013.What is truly timeless? This book explores the language of eternity, and in particular two ancient Greek terms that may bear the sense of eternal : aiônios and aïdios. This fascinating linguistic chronicle is marked by several milestones that correspond to the emergence of new perspectives on the nature of eternity. These milestones include the advent of Pre-Socratic physical speculation and the notion of limitless time in ancient philosophy, the major shift in orientation marked by Plato s idea…Read more
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Sacred Heart UniversityAlumnus (MA, MA, Postdoc), Then Fellow
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Durham UniversityProfessor, Hon.
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Cambridge UniversityMember, Centre for The Study of Platonism
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Angelicum (US)Graduate SchoolDistinguished Professor
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Princeton UniversitySenior Fellow
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