Product Description : Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom Winner of the Journal of the History of Ideass Morris D Forkosch prize This book traces the development thought about God and the relationship between Gods being and activity from Aristotle through the pagan Neoplatonists to thinkers such as Augustine Boethius and Aquinas in the West and Dionysius the Areopagite Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas in the East The resulst is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western churches
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