Our divine double
What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms throughout the centuries, down to the present. Our Divine Double traces the rise of this ancient idea that each person has a divine counterpart, twin, or alter-eg…
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- Full title :Our divine double / Charles M. Stang.
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What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms throughout the centuries, down to the present. Our Divine Double traces the rise of this ancient idea that each person has a divine counterpart, twin, or alter-ego, and the eventual eclipseof this idea with the rise of Christian conciliar orthodoxy.
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- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
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- Description:1 ressource en ligne
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0674970160, 9780674970168
- DOI:10.4159/9780674970168
- oclc:on1226489389
- LC Classification:B526
- Dewey Decimal:126
Table of Contents
Introduction: Narcissus and his double -- Reading Plato's many doubles -- Thomas, who is called "twin" -- Syzygies, twins, and mirrors -- Mani and his twin-companion -- Plotinus and the doubled intellect -- Whither thedivine double?
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