Browsing Research Output by Subject "Plotinus"
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All Eye: a metaphor from Ezekiel in the Desert Fathers, the School of Gaza, and Gregory
(Taylor and Francis, 2015)Ezekiel's imagery of the four living creatures being all eye proved to be a useful metaphor for such diverse characters as the desert fathers, the ascetics of Gaza, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Gregory Palamas. This study interposes ... -
The desire for the ineffable : on the myth of music as absolute : research article (2009/544)
(Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte, Potchefstroom, 2009)This article proposes to establish and critique connections between religious and musico-aesthetic conceptions of in-effability by exploring the link between neoplatonic thought and romantic aesthetics. The central thesis ...