Ilaria Ramelli
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1482432 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ilaria Ramelli |
| NOMBRES | Ilaria |
| APELLIDO | Ramelli |
| FIRMA | RAMELLI I |
| AFILIACIONES | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1479-4182 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Seneca–Paul Correspondence
This volume brings together the results of nearly thirty years of scholarly engagement with the pseudepigraphic Seneca-Paul correspondence. Ilaria Ramelli begins with methodological reflections on the concept of pseudepigraphy and the implications for understanding this epistolary exchange. By comparing the Seneca-Paul letters with non-literary Greek and Latin correspondence from the first to third centuries CE, she challenges their previously as…
Bardaisan on Human Nature, Fate, and Free Will
This in-depth investigation of Bardaisan of Edessa and the Syriac Book of the Laws of Countries, written by leading experts, explores Bardaisan's arguments on intellect, free will, nature, fate, anthropology, astrology, and eschatology. The introduction by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli examines his school and works, presents the Book as a Platonic dialogue reflecting his thought, and analyses its arguments against »Gnosticism« and Marcionism. Following the…
The Pre-History of the Pelagian Controversy, Part I
In this chapter I give an outline of the historico-theological background of the Pelagian controversy, focusing on Origen and Tertullian, Cyprian, Hilary, and briefly Ambrosiaster, with emphasis on the philosophico-theological concepts of grace and free will, on the one side, and ethical intellectualism and the roots of original sin, on the other. These issues are discussed mainly with a view to Augustine. The case is made that Origen was not the…
Participation in the Divine
The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. It is how thinkers throughout history have justified existence itself, explaining temporal being vis-à-vis God. Yet in the wake of secularisation and the widespread phenomenon of disenchantment, this once ubiquitous and coveted notion has fallen into desuetude. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key co…
Intellectual Constructions of Free Will
Philosophical and religious voices in the imperial period and Late Antiquity emphasized individual responsibility and free will, including, from the early Christian side, anti-“Gnostic” (and later anti-Manichean) defenses of free will against determinism. This essay concentrates on the rather neglected author Bardaisan, who rejected the deterministic astrological arguments maintained by Stoics, “Gnostics,” and “Chaldeans,” and, like Origen, argue…
Jane Heath
Origen, the Philosophical Theologian
How did Origen, one of the major Patristic thinkers, construct his philosophical theology? What are his main innovations in metaphysics, protology, Trinitarian Theology and Christology? How did he view the relation between philosophy and theology? This is a collection of over twenty essays, mostly from world-leading journals and books from outstanding publishers, besides two new ones, from Professor Ilaria L.E. Ramelli’s life-long, and always con…
Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity
The period from the Late Roman Republic to the end of antiquity was marked by a wide interest in divination, and more broadly by an intense belief in the possibility of establishing close and personal connections with the gods. Divinatory practices underwent profound changes, accompanied by new trends in religious belief and philosophical reflection. Different religious, ethnic and cultural groups resorted to prophecy to define their respective i…
Cornutus, Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology
This chapter concentrates on the Roman Stoic Cornutus’s mythological allegoresis in his handbook of Greek theology. For each divinity, from Ouranos to Hades, Cornutus provides an allegorical-etymological interpretation of its names and epithets, attributes, aspects of its myths and rituals, and so on. Physical allegory (Zeus represents the ether; Hera, the air, etc.) is prevalent, although there are also examples of ethical and historical exegese…
Allegorizing and Philosophizing
After presenting the meaning and scope of allegory and philosophical allegoresis, and their relation to mythology in antiquity and late antiquity, this chapter points out how central the defense of myths from charges of impiety was to philosophical allegoresis. The main exponents of the allegoresis of myths from Theagenes onward are presented, The chapter argues that in Stoicism the allegoresis of myths was not only a rhetorical device or an etym…
Matter in the Dialogue of Adamantius
The Legacy of Origen in Gregory of Nyssa’s Theology of Freedom
This essay will argue that what I call Gregory of Nyssa’s ‘theology of freedom’ (which gave rise, among other things, to his powerful theological arguments against slavery and social injustice) is grounded in Origen’s own theology of freedom. I will first introduce the uniqueness of Gregory’s arguments against slavery and social injustice, and their theological bases, pointing out how these, more broadly, are part and parcel of Gregory’s theology…
Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity
This authoritative volume brings together the latest thinking on women’s leadership in early Christianity. Featuring contributors from key scholars in the fields of Christian history, the volume considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the first to the ninth centuries CE. This rich and diverse collection breaks new ground in the study of women in early Christianity. This is not about working with one me…
Typology
The hermeneutical principle of interpreting a character or fact of the Bible as a prefiguration ( typos ) of a future character or event is already internal to the Bible, and was pursued by Patristic exegetes in a variety of ways, sometimes dovetailing it with allegorical–spiritual interpretations.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (ca. 4 bce –65 ce ) is one of the foremost exponents of imperial Stoicism. His life, thought, and works will be briefly examined – also in light of recent research, for instance regarding his theological ideas and his stance toward allegoresis, slavery, and Judaism.
Seven Liberal Arts
The seven liberal arts were called liberales because they provided the education considered to be proper for a free person. The origin of the concept goes back to Classical and Hellenistic times, but the grouping of liberal arts into seven dates to Late Antiquity.
Sentences of Sextus
The so‐called Sextii Sententiae seem to be, in their present form, a Christian collection, probably dating to the second century ce , of mostly moral sentences ascribed to the Pythagorean Sextus. It shows how Stoic, Cynic, Platonic, and Pythagorean asceticism was absorbed by a Christian author – not only sexual restraint, but also voluntary poverty. I will explore the most important aspects of this collection, concerning asceticism and the relati…
Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity
This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE. This rich and diverse volume breaks new ground in the study of women in early Christianity. This is not about working with one method, based on one type of feminist the…
A Roman Commentary on St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, written by Richard J. Cassidy
Hartmut Leppin
As a critical journal for all classical studies, the GNOMON fosters the links between the distinct classical disciplines. It has thus an exceptional position among the classical review journals and allows familiarization with research and publications in neighbouring disciplines. The reviews address an international readership from all fields in classical studies. The GNOMON publishes reviews in German, English, French, Italian and Latin
Plagues and Epidemics Caused by D(a)emons in Origen and Porphyry and Potential Interrelations
This essay will address how Origen, an early Christian writer, theologian, and pastor, referred to plagues, epidemics, and misfortunes, and how he construed these phenomena in his theology, literary works, and pastoral practice. A comparison with Porphyry will be offered, who likely drew part of his daemonology from Origen. Those responsible for plagues in both Origen’s philosophical theology and in Porphyry’s philosophy are δαίμονες (demons or f…
Deacons and Diakonia in Early Christianity
Martianus Capella
Martianus Capella was a poet, influenced by Neoplatonism, who probably came from Roman Africa (Carthage) and wrote his masterpiece, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii in the early fifth century ce , likely to have been before 439, although the dating of Martianus is difficult.
Hierocles the Stoic
Anneo Cornuto e gli Stoici romani
L' articolo presenta un' analisi della complessa figura intellettuale de Anneo Cornuto nei suoi rapporti con lo Stoicismo romano de età neroniana. Sono studiate la sua vita, le fonti, i suoi molteplici ambiti de recerca (come nella tradizione stoica di Crisipo, che egli conosceva bene, e di Cratete di Mallo), il suo influsso su Persio, i suoi rapporti con Nerone,con Senece e con gli Stoice del tempo. Conclude l' articolo una breve appendice bibli…
Origen's Anti-Subordinationism and its Heritage in the Nicene and Cappadocian Line
Nyssen's arguments in In Illud: Tunc et Ipse Filius entirely derive from Origen (probably also passing through Marcellus of Ancyra and Eusebius). Origen's influence, theoretical and exegetical, is evident in every passage, from the argumentative pillars down to the tiniest details of exegesis. Gregory's close dependence on Origen in his anti-subordinationism, within his polemic against 'Arianism,' confirms that Origen was not the forerunner of 'A…
Origen, Patristic Philosophy, and Christian Platonism Re-Thinking the Christianisation of Hellenism
Origen was a Christian Platonist, which his adversaries (both Christians who opposed Greek philosophy and pagan philosophers like Porphyry who saw Christianity as a non-culture) considered to be a contradictio in adiecto. His formation and teaching centred on philosophy, and his Περì αρχων in its structure was inspired not so much by earlier Christian works as by pagan philosophical works stemming from the selfsame authors as those appreciated at…
Origen and the Platonic Tradition
This study situates Origen of Alexandria within the Platonic tradition, presenting Origenas a Christian philosopher who taught and studied philosophy, of which theology was part and parcel. More specifically, Origen can be described as a Christian Platonist. He criticized "false philosophies" as well as "heresies," but not the philosophy of Plato. Against the background of recent scholarly debates, the thorny issue of the possible identity betwee…
Ethos and Logos
This essay analyses the most significant sources-some overlooked so far-on the debate on ethos and logos that was lively between "pagan" and Christian philosophers in the second century ce. Epictetus's attribution of a behaviour based on ethos to the Christians should not be regarded as utterly negative, but should rather be connected with his teacher Musonius's high appreciation of ethos, even over logos. Marcus Aurelius's and Celsus's negative …
The Divine as Inaccessible Object of Knowledge in Ancient Platonism
The divine is an inaccessible object of human knowledge and reasoning according to some philosophers-theologians of the first four centuries ce . They display a refined cognitive approach to religion and a sophisticated treatment of the problem of "theo-logy": reasoning and speaking about the divine, which nevertheless is unknowable and ineffable. They belong to the same philosophical tradition, Platonism, but to different religious traditions: P…
Christian Soteriology and Christian Platonism
Paul's statement that God will be all in all and other NT and OT passages are taken by Origen and by Gregory of Nyssa as the scriptural basis of their eschatological doctrine of apokatastasis and eventual universal salvation. At the same time, their doctrine rests (1) on philosophical arguments mainly deriving from Platonism (Gregory's De anima et resurrectione is deeply influenced by Platonism both in form and in content, and so is Origen, altho…
Aristotle and Individual Forms
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Christian Soteriology and Christian Platonism
Paul's statement that God will be all in all and other NT and OT passages are taken by Origen and by Gregory of Nyssa as the scriptural basis of their eschatological doctrine of apokatastasis and eventual universal salvation. At the same time, their doctrine rests (1) on philosophical arguments mainly deriving from Platonism (Gregory's De anima et resurrectione is deeply influenced by Platonism both in form and in content, and so is Origen, altho…
Die Griechischen Götter
Lucius Annaeus Cornutus stammte aus Leptis Magna in Libyen und lebte zur Zeit Kaiser Neros als stoischer Philosoph in Rom. Von seinen Werken (Schriften zur Rhetorik und Philosophie; Kommentar zum Dichter Vergil) ist vollständig nur die hier erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorgelegte Epidromê tôn kata tên Hellênikên theologian paradedomenôn ('Überblick über das in der griechischen Götterlehre Überlieferte') erhalten. Dieses Werk stellt ein ebens…
Der Philosoph und sein Bild
Der Band präsentiert einige Vortragstexte (or. 54, 55, 70, 71 und 72) des Redners und Philosophen Dion von Prusa (um 40 - nach 111 n. Chr.) - auch genannt Chrysostomos (»Goldmund«) -, die bisher noch nie im Detail kommentiert worden sind. Sie zeichnen ein Bild des Philosophen nicht als eines abstrakten Denkers, sondern als eines neuen Odysseus, Herakles, aber auch Sokrates und Diogenes, der sich einmischt und schon durch sein Auftreten und sein E…
Die Griechischen Götter
Lucius Annaeus Cornutus stammte aus Leptis Magna in Libyen und lebte zur Zeit Kaiser Neros als stoischer Philosoph in Rom. Von seinen Werken (Schriften zur Rhetorik und Philosophie; Kommentar zum Dichter Vergil) ist vollständig nur die hier erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorgelegte Epidromê tôn kata tên Hellênikên theologian paradedomenôn ('Überblick über das in der griechischen Götterlehre Überlieferte') erhalten. Dieses Werk stellt ein ebens…
Der Philosoph und sein Bild
Der Band präsentiert einige Vortragstexte (or. 54, 55, 70, 71 und 72) des Redners und Philosophen Dion von Prusa (um 40 - nach 111 n. Chr.) - auch genannt Chrysostomos (»Goldmund«) -, die bisher noch nie im Detail kommentiert worden sind. Sie zeichnen ein Bild des Philosophen nicht als eines abstrakten Denkers, sondern als eines neuen Odysseus, Herakles, aber auch Sokrates und Diogenes, der sich einmischt und schon durch sein Auftreten und sein E…
Origen, Bardaiṣan, and the Origin of Universal Salvation
Is Origen of Alexandria the inventor of the eschatological doctrine of apokatastasis — of the eventual return of all creatures to the Good, that is, God, and thus universal salvation? Certainly, he is one of its chief supporters in all of history, and he is, as far as we know, the first to have maintained it in a complete and coherent way, so that all of his philosophy of history, protology, and anthropology is oriented toward this telos. 1 There…
Origen, Patristic Philosophy, and Christian Platonism Re-Thinking the Christianisation of Hellenism
Origen was a Christian Platonist, which his adversaries (both Christians who opposed Greek philosophy and pagan philosophers like Porphyry who saw Christianity as a non-culture) considered to be a contradictio in adiecto. His formation and teaching centred on philosophy, and his Περì αρχων in its structure was inspired not so much by earlier Christian works as by pagan philosophical works stemming from the selfsame authors as those appreciated at…
Baptism in Gregory of Nyssa’s Theology and Its Orientation to Eschatology
Origen the Christian Middle/Neoplatonist
On the basis of a close analysis of the sources and of new arguments I support the identification of Origen the Christian philosopher-theologian with Origen the Platonist. My thesis is that it is perfectly possible—even if not necessary—to refer all available sources on Origen the Neoplatonist to Origen the Christian, and to hypothesise one and the same author, Origen the Christian Platonist: more specifically, a Christian philosopher between Mid…
The Philosophical Stance of Allegory in Stoicism and its Reception in Platonism, Pagan and Christian
Ierocle neostoico in Stobeo
Ancient Allegory and its Reception through the Ages1
Origen's Anti-Subordinationism and its Heritage in the Nicene and Cappadocian Line
Nyssen's arguments in In Illud: Tunc et Ipse Filius entirely derive from Origen (probably also passing through Marcellus of Ancyra and Eusebius). Origen's influence, theoretical and exegetical, is evident in every passage, from the argumentative pillars down to the tiniest details of exegesis. Gregory's close dependence on Origen in his anti-subordinationism, within his polemic against 'Arianism,' confirms that Origen was not the forerunner of 'A…
Typology
The hermeneutical principle of interpreting a character or fact of the Bible as a prefiguration ( typos ) of a future character or event is already internal to the Hebrew Bible, where the Exodus traditions are seen as types of Israel's final redemption (Isa 51–2).
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (ca. 4 BCE –65 CE ) is one of the foremost exponents of imperial Stoicism.
Seven Liberal Arts
These arts were called liberates because they provided the education proper to a free person.
Soul, Greece and Rome
The notion of soul is a fundamental concept in the philosophical and religious landscape of the ancient Greco‐Roman world. In Homer, psychē indicates the vital breath, which keeps a human alive, and the unconscious, unknowing phantasm that after death goes into Hades.
Martianus Capella
Martianus Capella was a poet, influenced by Neoplatonism, who probably came from Roman Africa ( CARTHAGE ) and wrote his masterpiece, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (Willis 1983) in the early fifth century CE , likely before 439, although the dating of Martianus is difficult.
Sentences of Sextus
The so‐called Sextii Sententiae seem to be, in their present form, a Christian collection, probably dating to the second century ce , of mostly moral sentences ascribed to the Pythagorean Sextus.
Philo as Origen’s Declared Model
After on overview of Origen’s relations to Rabbinic exegesis, I turn to the relations between Origen and Hellenistic Judaism. I investigate how Philo and Origen use the instrument of allegory to read the Bible in the light of philosophy, but both of them react against a sheer allegorization of Scripture, which existed both in the Jewish allegorizers who preceded Philo and in ‘Gnostic’ Christian allegorizers. Even Philo and Origen, however, though…
Origen, Greek Philosophy, and the Birth of the Trinitarian Meaning of Hypostasis
Origen, far from being a precursor of “Arianism,” as he was depicted during the Origenist controversy and is often still misrepresented today, was the main inspirer of the Nicene-Cappadocian line. 1 The Trinitarian formulation of this line, which was represented above all by Gregory of Nyssa, is that God is one and the same nature or essence in three individual substances and that the Son is to the Father. Indeed, the three members of the Trinity…
Terms for Eternity: Aiônios and Aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts
The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis
The theory of apokatastasis (restoration), most famously defended by the Alexandrian exegete, philosopher and theologian Origen, has its roots in both Greek philosophy and Jewish-Christian Scriptures and literature, and became a major theologico-soteriological doctrine in patristics. This monograph—the first comprehensive, systematic scholarly study of the history of the Christian apokatastasis doctrine—argues its presence and Christological and …
Terms for Eternity
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