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Expectations of Immortality in Late Antiquity Aquinas Lecture ; 1987
author
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Armstrong, A. H.
publisher
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Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874621542
print isbn13
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9780874621549
ebook isbn13
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9780585146782
language
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English
subject
Immortality--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600, Rome--Religion.
publication date
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1987
lcc
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BL815.I4A76 1987eb
ddc
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291.2/3/09015
subject
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Immortality--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600, Rome--Religion.
Expectations of Immortality in Late Antiquity
The Aquinas Lecture, 1987
by A. Hilary Armstrong
Under the auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau
Marquette University Press Milwaukee 1987
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Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 87-60376
(c) Copyright 1987 Marquette University Press
ISBN 0-87462-154-2
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For MY WIFE DEBORAH
who joined the company of the blessed on December 10, 1986, shortly after the completion of this lecture.
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Prefatory
The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The 1987 Aquinas Lecture, Expectations of Immortality in Late Antiquity, was delivered in the Todd Wehr Chemistry Building on Sunday, March 1, 1987, by A. Hilary Armstrong.
Professor Armstrong was born on August 13, 1909, in Sussex, England. He was educated at Lancing College, Sussex (1923-28), Jesus College, Cambridge (1928-32) and the University of Vienna (1932-33). He was Library Clerk in the Classical Faculty Library, Cambridge (1933-36) and Lecturer in Classics, University College, Swansea, S. Wales (1936-39). He was Professor of Latin and Greek at the University of Malta (1939-43); during the time of the great German bombardment and blockade of Malta the university continued to function. After the war he was Lecturer in Latin, University College, Cardiff (1946-50). He became Gladstone Professor of Greek in the University of Liverpool in 1950 where he remained until 1972 when he became Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he remained until 1982. He has also been Visiting Professor at Manhattanville College
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(1966) and at Villanova University (1979), where he also gave the Augustine Lecture in 1966.
Professor Armstrong was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1970 and received the Aquinas Medal from the American Catholic Philosophical Association in 1973. He has been a regular participant in the International Patristic Conference at Oxford, attended various international Neoplatonic conferences and, since 1984, the Eranos meetings at Ascona, Switzerland.
His publications include: Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus (1940), Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (1947), Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy, with R. A. Markus (1960), Plotinus (selections, 1953). He published a volume of collected papers, Plotinian and Christian Studies, in 1979 and is planning a second volume of papers for 1989. He has translated the Enneads of Plotinus for the Loeb Classical Library, Plotinus I-VII, the final two volumes of which are now in press. He was editor of and contributor to Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (1970) and also Classical Mediterranean Spirituality (Volume 15 of World Spirituality, 1986).
To Professor Armstrong's distinguished list of publications, Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add: Expectations of Immortality in Late Antiquity.
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Expectations of Immortality The Late Antiquity
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The subject I propose for this year's Aquinas Lecture is one suitable to my age and the studies in which I have spent my life. It would certainly have seemed worth considering to St. Thomas and other philosophers of our older tradition. But it is, from some strictly and narrowly philosophical points of view, a rather odd one, and neither it nor my treatment of it may seem appropriate for a philosophical lecture to some professional philosophers in the audience. If so, I apologize formally, but quite unrepetantly. I intend to consider a question which seems to me important, but to which, probably, no definite answer can ever be given of the sort which could be used as a basis for those large abstract generalizations which provide the materials for systematic overviews of human thought, religion and culture. The question is, to put it simply, "How much did expectations
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of an afterlife really matter to people in late antiquity, especially in the period from the second to the fourth centuries A.D. which I know best?" It is not "Did they in some sense believe in an after-life, and what was the discursively formulable content of their belief?" This might sometimes, though not always, be easier to answer. It is rather "How far was, not only what they believed, but what they felt and imagined about an after-life, strong enough to influence the way they behaved in this life and faced the always inescapable fact of bodily death?'' In trying to answer this we are clearly moving into a very misty area, and any suppositions we may form about various answers must necessarily be very tentative. We shall be dealing with imponderables, feelings, imaginations and emphases. But if we do not attempt to do so we shall be very unlikely to make any real contact with the people of the age we are studying, even to the limited extent to which we can ever make contact with people of any past age, or to arrive at any sort of understanding of them which will help us to understand ourselves.
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