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Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks book cover

1st Edition

Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks

By Simone Weil Copyright 2024
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge
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Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist in the Spanish Civil War, before her tragic early death in England at the age of thirty-four. Her work spans an astonishing variety of subjects,... Read more

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Christopher Hamilton

1.God's Quest for Man

2. The Laments of Electra and the Recognition of Orestes

3. Antigone

4. The Iliad, Poem of Might

5. Zeus and Prometheus

6. Prometheus

7. God in Plato

8. Divine Love in Creation

9. The Symposium of Plato

10. The Republic

11. The Pythagorean Doctrine

12. A Sketch of a History of Greek Science.

Index

Biography

Simone Weil (1909–1943) was one of the great theologians, philosophers and activists of the twentieth century. Her writings on the nature of religious faith, spirituality and philosophy have inspired thousands of her readers. A number of her other books, including The Need for Roots, Waiting for God and Oppression and Liberty, are also available in Routledge Classics.

'...the writings collected here suggest a forceful, imaginative, ingenious individual at work.' - Journal of Religion

'the only great spirit of our times' - Albert Camus

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