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Neoplatonism

noun
1.
A system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable.  "Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy"






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... God and the world, through whom God created whatever He created, and who may be incarnated for the salvation of the fallen, suffering creation. Well, Jesus Christ could include in His person this wonderful doctrine of Neoplatonism. ...
— The Agony of the Church (1917) • Nikolaj Velimirovic



Words linked to "Neoplatonism" :   philosophical doctrine, theological doctrine, philosophical theory



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