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S 3 ep 2: Neoplatonic Demonology & Texas Brisket
Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil
English - March 24, 2022 18:47 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBHistory Religion & Spirituality Religion Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This episode is all about non-Christian, Greek-philosophical perspectives on demons and their role in the universe that were developing around the formative stages of Christian theology. Neoplatonism would go on to influence late-ancient and medieval Christianity and so we start to track its effects in this episode.
Neoplatonic Demons and Angels, ed. Luc Brisson
Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food, Bk. 2
“Iamblichus” by Riccardo Chiaradonna & Adrien Lecerf at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Plotinus” by Lloyd Gerson at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Porphyry” by Eyjólfur Emilsson at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy