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The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. It is how thinkers throughout history have justified existence itself, explaining temporal being vis-à-vis God. Yet in the wake of secularisation and the widespread phenomenon of disenchantment, this once ubiquitous and coveted notion has fallen into desuetude. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key concept in the history of Western thought. They provide, for the first time, a rigorous and accessible account of participation, a pivotal concept in Western philosophy and theology, from antiquity to the modern era. Bringing together contributions by an international team of leading scholars of the Platonic tradition, the volume challenges a standard distinction between philosophy and theology. It also enables a comprehensive understanding of figures who do not fit neatly into the modern university's division of these subjects.
Contents
Foreword John M. Dillon; Introduction Douglas Hedley and Daniel J. Tolan; 1. The lord is one Margaret Barker; 2. The place and scope of participation in the divine in the thought of Plato Kevin Corrigan; 3. Origen on participation Daniel J. Tolan; 4. Forms, intellects and angels: Plotinus on participation Stephen Clark; 5. Participation in the divine in Gregory of Nyssa Ilaria Ramelli; 6. Augustine's 'illumination' theory as the natural participation of the human mind: correcting Bonaventure via Plotinus and Marius Victorinus Sarah Byers; 7. Participation: the principle of cosmic unification in the Athenian School of Platonism Sarah Klitenic Wear; 8. St. Maximus the confessor on participation Torstein Tollefsen; 9. Participation in medieval Platonism Stephen Gersh; 10. Participation as god's indwelling: Aquinas Wayne Hankey†; 11. Some late medieval discussions of participation in the divine Richard Cross; 12. Music, temperance, and participation in Marsilio Ficino Michael J. B. Allen†; 13. Richard hooker's metaphysics of divine participation Torrance Kirby; 14. Cudworth on causality, and substantial forms: towards a new theory of causation Adrian Mihai; 15. The transcendence of holiness: divine goodness and human freedom in Henry more's critique of Baruch de Spinoza Christian Hengstermann; 16. Participation in the Romantic Period Douglas Hedley; 17. Participation revived and revisited: the speculative metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead Jacob Sherman
