ABSTRACT

Concepts of God presented by Greek philosophers were significantly different from the image of the divine of popular religion and indicate a fairly sophisticated theological reflection from the very inception of Greek philosophy. This book presents a comprehensive history of theological thought of Greek philosophers from the Presocratics to the early Hellenistic period. Concentrating on views concerning the attributes of God and their impact on eschatological and ethical thought, Drozdek explains that theology was of paramount importance for all Greek philosophers even in the absence of purely theological or religious language.

chapter |14 pages

The Milesians

chapter |11 pages

Xenophanes and One God

chapter |15 pages

Heraclitus and the Logos

chapter |10 pages

Parmenides and Being

chapter |9 pages

Anaxagoras and Mind

chapter |13 pages

Democritus and Necessity

chapter |12 pages

Rationalization of Religion

chapter |13 pages

Socrates

chapter |9 pages

Antisthenes

chapter |6 pages

Megarian Theology

chapter |17 pages

Plato and the Demiurge

chapter |12 pages

The Old Academy

chapter |9 pages

The Early Lyceum

chapter |8 pages

Early Cynics

chapter |13 pages

Epicurus and Isonomia

chapter |17 pages

Early Stoics and the Logos