Book contents
- Participation in the Divine
- Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism
- Participation in the Divine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1The Lord Is One
- 2The Place and Scope of Participation in the Divine in the Thought of Plato
- 3Origen on Participation
- 4Forms, Intellects, and Angels
- 5Participation in the Divine in Gregory of Nyssa
- 6Augustine’s “Illumination” Theory as the Natural Participation of the Human Mind
- 7The Principle of Cosmic Unification in the Athenian School of Platonism
- 8St. Maximus the Confessor on Participation
- 9Participation in Medieval Platonism
- 10Participation as God’s Indwelling
- 11Some Late Medieval Discussions of Participation in the Divine
- 12Music, Temperance, and Participation in Marsilio Ficino
- 13Richard Hooker’s Metaphysics of Divine Participation
- 14The Transcendence of Holiness
- 15Ralph Cudworth on Causality and Substantial Forms
- 16The Romantic Legacy
- 17Participation Revived and Revised
- Index
- References
17 - Participation Revived and Revised
The Speculative Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2024
Book contents
- Participation in the Divine
- Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism
- Participation in the Divine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1The Lord Is One
- 2The Place and Scope of Participation in the Divine in the Thought of Plato
- 3Origen on Participation
- 4Forms, Intellects, and Angels
- 5Participation in the Divine in Gregory of Nyssa
- 6Augustine’s “Illumination” Theory as the Natural Participation of the Human Mind
- 7The Principle of Cosmic Unification in the Athenian School of Platonism
- 8St. Maximus the Confessor on Participation
- 9Participation in Medieval Platonism
- 10Participation as God’s Indwelling
- 11Some Late Medieval Discussions of Participation in the Divine
- 12Music, Temperance, and Participation in Marsilio Ficino
- 13Richard Hooker’s Metaphysics of Divine Participation
- 14The Transcendence of Holiness
- 15Ralph Cudworth on Causality and Substantial Forms
- 16The Romantic Legacy
- 17Participation Revived and Revised
- Index
- References
Summary
As the other contributions to this volume demonstrate, the notion of participation has not only enjoyed a long history but has been central to many of the greatest philosophical and spiritual achievements of previous centuries (Sherman 2008; Davison 2019; Annice 1952). Indeed, participation and its various linguistic cognates (μέθεξις, κοινωνία, μίμησις, participatio, etc.) arguably constitute the symbolic and conceptual center of the broadly Platonic tradition that lies behind so much of Western thought and culture. From Plato’s initial exploration of the concept to the great Neoplatonic syntheses, Patristic speculative theologies, the theological metaphysics of Anselm and Aquinas, or Nicholas of Cusa’s theocosmology, alongside so many others, the doctrine of participation has enjoyed a career long and venerable enough to make almost any philosophical concept envious. Accordingly, participation will always be of interest to the history of philosophy and theology, but how does the concept of participation fare in the century nearest our own?
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