Demiurge - Wikipedia
WEBIn the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge (/ ˈ d ɛ m i. ɜːr dʒ /) (sometimes spelled as demiurg) is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical …
Sistine Chapel - Wikipedia
WEBThe Sistine Chapel (/ ˈ s ɪ s t iː n / SIST-een; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City.
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WEBOct 27, 2014 · And thus Creation has been progressing for centuries and centuries, millennia and millennia, until becoming as we know it today, precisely because God is not a demiurge or a magician, but the Creator who gives life to all beings.
is not inconsistent with the notion of creation’ - Religion News …
WEBOct 27, 2014 · “God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities,” the pope said. “Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because...
WEBIt explores key metaphysical problems such as the origin of evil, the relationship between matter and the First Principle and the deploy-ment of ever-increasing numbers of secondary deities to insulate the First Principle from the sensible world.
Demiurge | Catholic Answers Encyclopedia
WEBThe Demiurge, fearing lest Jesus, whom he had intended as his Messias, should spread the knowledge of the Supreme God, had him crucified by the Jews. At the consummation of all things all light will return to the pleroma; but Jaldabaoth, the Demiurge, with the material world, will be cast into the lower depths.
Plato’s Timaeus - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBOct 25, 2005 · It is the handiwork of a divine Craftsman (“Demiurge,” dêmiourgos, 28a6) who, imitating an unchanging and eternal model, imposes mathematical order on a preexistent chaos to generate the ordered universe (kosmos).
PLATO'S DEMIURGE AS PRECURSOR TO THE STOIC …
WEBOn this basis I consider the proposal that the crucial philosophical appeal of the Timaeus for the Stoics – and perhaps the reason it attracted their interest in the first place – lay not in its claims about the Receptacle and World Soul, but rather in its portrayal of the Demiurge who designed the cosmos.
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WEBJan 21, 2022 · The Demiurge and His Place in Plato’s Metaphysics and Cosmology. Close to the beginning of his grand speech, Plato’s Timaeus makes the following declaration: “To find the maker and father of this universe is a difficult task, and even once found, it’s impossible to declare him to all” (Timaeus 28c3–5).
The Demiurge in Ancient Thought - Cambridge University Press …
WEBThis lucid and wide-ranging book argues that the concept of the Demiurge was highly influential on the many discussions operating in Middle Platonist, Gnostic, Hermetic and Christian contexts in the first three centuries AD.
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