The Library
1577 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
301–400
1 work
c. 363
Latin
Marius Victorinus · c. 290–c. 364
The work of an elderly and celebrated rhetorician whose late conversion caused a sensation in Rome, reading Paul with a Neoplatonist's philosophical vocabulary.
401–500
1 work
c. 400–410
Greek
Synesius of Cyrene · c. 373–c. 414
Philosophical hymns by a Neoplatonist landowner who accepted a bishopric on the condition that he need not pretend to believe everything expected of him.
501–600
1 work
c. 500–520; first cited 533
Greek
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Four treatises and ten letters written under the name of Paul's Athenian convert: on the divine names, on mystical theology, and on the ranked hierarchies of angels and of the church.
801–900
1 work
c. 862–867
Latin
Periphyseon
John Scotus Eriugena · c. 815–c. 877
A dialogue dividing all reality into four kinds of nature and following creation out from God and back into him, drawing on Greek fathers almost nobody in the West could read.
1101–1200
2 works
c. 1110–1130
Georgian
Ioane Petritsi · 11th–12th century
A translation of and commentary on Proclus, arguing that Neoplatonic metaphysics can be reconciled with Christian doctrine.
c. 1150–1165
Greek
Nicholas of Methone · d. c. 1165
A point-by-point answer to the Elements of Theology, defending creation from nothing against a Neoplatonist system of eternal emanation.
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