Origen and the Life of the Stars: A History of an Idea

by Alan Scott

Book Overview

From the days of antiquity to the time of the Middle Ages, intellectuals have widely assumed that stars were alive, a belief that gave the cosmos an important position not only in Greek religion, but also in discussions of human psychology and eschatology. In the third century AD, the Christian theologian Origen included such Hellenistic theories on the life and nature of the stars in his cosmology, a theory that would have important implications...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198263619
• ISBN13: 9780198263616
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"