The Image of Christians in Neo-Platonic Writings, Images of Pagan Philosophers in Early Christian Texts

Student: Boltrushevich Sofya

Supervisor: Aleksey A. Kamenskikh

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Perm)

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2020

This work is an attempt to find out how the image of Christians in the texts of the Neoplatonists and the image of pagan philosophers in the texts of Christians changed during the III-VI centuries A.D. In the course of this research, each source was studied from the point of view of displaying Christians or Neoplatonists in it in any way, the images were identified, their evolution was analyzed over time.

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