This book by David Bentley Hart, All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life from Yale University Press, has been anticipated for over 8 years.
To be in the same room with people communing with these works by someone I wrestle to understand, but Love as he opens doors to magnificent beauty, and at a place so very dear to me- I was married in Mt Joy/Elizabethtown- has me calculating possibilities of attending.
> This book All Things Are Full of Gods takes its title from a belief attributed by Aristotle to Thales of Miletus.
Some time ago, I read Dr Eric Pearl's Theophany and on page 77 he quotes Proclus' Elements of Theology, prop. 145 "[A]ll things are full of gods". The chapter is about the Neoplatonic hierarchy of being.
Yes, Perl’s book Theophany is wonderful, and Proclus was likely even more familiar to many Christian thinkers than the earlier passage from De An. 411 a7-8: “Some think that the soul pervades the whole universe, whence perhaps came Thales’s view that everything is full of gods.”
I live in the wrong state, but I will very much be there in spirit, since I plan to read the book about a hundred times, just like I did with TEOG.
I’m in the same boat with rereading. I take in a little more each time.
To be in the same room with people communing with these works by someone I wrestle to understand, but Love as he opens doors to magnificent beauty, and at a place so very dear to me- I was married in Mt Joy/Elizabethtown- has me calculating possibilities of attending.
> This book All Things Are Full of Gods takes its title from a belief attributed by Aristotle to Thales of Miletus.
Some time ago, I read Dr Eric Pearl's Theophany and on page 77 he quotes Proclus' Elements of Theology, prop. 145 "[A]ll things are full of gods". The chapter is about the Neoplatonic hierarchy of being.
Yes, Perl’s book Theophany is wonderful, and Proclus was likely even more familiar to many Christian thinkers than the earlier passage from De An. 411 a7-8: “Some think that the soul pervades the whole universe, whence perhaps came Thales’s view that everything is full of gods.”
Thank you!