HUMA 3422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Middle Platonism, Pharisees
25 May 2020
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Lecture 6: responses to roman imperialism -- john"s apocalypse . *heresies are a way of trying to establish ways and a norm to follow jesus and divide followers of jesus. They are a way of dividing people. *we only had these late church-followers talking about what early church-followers got wrong about following jesus (part of this includes the validity of the secret revelation of john 0. The secret revelation of john: is maybe from the 2nd c. ad involves platonic philosophy. By the 150s ad, the lines between sects of platonic philosophy became blurred is best described as middle platonism. One of the characters in this text goes deeply into the origin of god and all that went into making the universe. It is the interplay between matter and perfection that goes into god"s creation that are the. Overall, plato believed that the interplay between matter and perfection is a good thing model of things.
