A01=Porphyry of Tyre
ancient Greece
ancient philosophy
Author_Porphyry of Tyre
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Christianity
divination
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metaphysics
Neoplatonism
oracles
philosophy of religion
ritual studies
theology
theurgy
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- ISBN 9780674302471
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234–305) was not only the biographer of his teacher Plotinus, and the editor of his Enneads, but an important Platonist philosopher in his own right. On Theology and Theurgy presents two of Porphyry’s texts, preserved in fragments, in which he tries to bring philosophy to bear on religion, and ultimately to align the two. In “Letter to Anebo” and “Philosophy from Oracles,” Porphyry explores questions of reason, revelation, and ritual, of theology and theurgy, of how divination serves divinization. This edition includes the Greek fragments and Latin quotations of both texts with facing English translation, a Greek-English glossary (including Latin equivalents), and a commentary.
Fabien Muller is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Texts & Translations in Transcendence & Transformation Initiative at Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions. Charles M. Stang is Professor of Early Christian Thought and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School.
