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Part1<br/>Providence,<br/>The pronoia Problem(s),<br/>Introduction: Did the Gods care?,<br/>The first 'likely stories' about Providence: From the Presocratics to Plato,<br/>Epicurus, Aristotle, and (Pseudo-) Aristotle: What difference is there?,<br/>"Call him Providence. You will still be right". The stoa on faith and Determinism,<br/>Three Providences! Pseudo- Plutarch and the Doctrine of 'conditional fate',<br/>Conclusion: Aesop and Xanthus in the weeds,<br/>Which God cares for you and me?,<br/>Introduction: The personal God of early Christianity? <br/>Philosophers' personal Gods: Daimonic intervention in the stoa and Plutarch,<br/>Fortunes Favorites: Providence in early Roman Historians,<br/>A different God, present and absent in Hellenistic Jewish Literature,<br/>"So you do not neglect the nation of the Jews after all!": Philo of Alexandria,<br/>Flavius Josephus: Providential History is Jewish history,<br/>Prayer of care?- Justin Martyr and Trypho the Jew 'Investigate the Diety',<br/>Conclusion: A God personsl enough for a stoic,<br/>Dualism,<br/>The other Gods,<br/>Introduction: Dualism in doubt,<br/>Matter, Evil, and Dualism from the Pythagoreans to a Neo-Pythagorean,<br/>'Mitigated Dualism' and Jewish Apocalyptic literature,<br/>Athenagoras on "the Archon over Matter and Material things",<br/>Living idols and questions that deserve punishment according to Clement of Alexandria,<br/>"Nothing happens without God": Origen on evil, Demons, and other absences,<br/>Marcion asks,"Doth God Clothe the grass?" Conclusions: 'Religious Dualism' in Roman Philosophy,<br/>Did God care for creation?<br/>Introduction: Gnostics without 'Gnosticism?,<br/>No idle hands: The creation- theology of Irenaeus of Lyons,<br/>Archons and Providences at work in creation: 'On the origin of the world ' and the 'Apocryphon of John',<br/>"These senseless Men claim that they ascend above the Ceator,<br/>"The will of the Father" and the Tripartite Tractate"<br/>Conclusions: The Gnostics on providence, creation, and 'Gnosticism',<br/>Part3<br/>will,<br/>Did God know all along?,<br/>Introduction: Origen 'on fate'(Philocalia(23),<br/>Origens Digressions on divine Omniscience and future causes in 'On fate',<br/>Chrysippus and Cicero on "Things that are simple, others complex": the Oracle to Laius,<br/>Upholding the appearance of Civic Piety: Alexander of Aphrodisias and Alcinous respond to the 'oracle to Latius',<br/>Origen`s oracles to Laius-and David, against Marcion,<br/>Conclusions: The Book of Heaven',<br/>What we choose now,<br/>IntroductionWhere does free will emerge in ancient Philosophy?,<br/>Aristotle on action and pseudo--Plutarch on determinism,<br/>Allthese things depend on one`s thinking autonomy and fatalism in the book of the Laws of the countries',<br/>How God cares,<br/>Conclusions,<br/>Bibliography,<br/>Index<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> |