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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction 1
Historical setting 3
Basil and Eunomius in recent scholarship 15
Plan of chapters 20
Sense and reference 21
A note on style, translations, and references 22
Chapter One The Heteroousians on Names and Naming 25
I The early Heteroousian theory of names 27
Aetius and the centrality of áunbegotten' 28
Eunomius: an untraditional and illogical interpretation of áunbegotten'? 32
The Heteroousian theory of names and their theological epistemology 34
The centrality of divine simplicity 36
II Eunomius's theory of names: implications and inconsistencies 38
Homonymy and synonymy 38
Blurred distinctions 42
III Eunomius on the origin of names 43
Conclusion 47
Chapter Two The Heteroousians and Philosophical Theories of Names 49
I The quest for the sources of Eunomius's theory of names 51
II The Platonist tradition: the Cratylus and its interpretation 57
Plato's Cratylus on names and naming 58
A Mesoplatonist theory: Alcinous 62
The Neoplatonist interpretation of the Cratylus 65
Concluding remarks on Platonist influence on the Heteroousians 79
III Mediated Platonism: Philo and Eusebius 79
Philo and the exegesis of Hebrew names 80
Eusebius of Caesarea and Platonist indebtedness to Moses 87
Conclusion 92
Chapter Three The Heteroousian Theory of Names in its Christian Context 97
I The Christian tradition on áunbegotten' as a name for God 98
Second-century Apologists 99
Dionysius of Alexandria 106
Early fourth-century Eusebians 109
Early fourth-century debate over áunbegotten' 115
II Athanasius and Eunomius 124
Athanasius on name and nature 124
Athanasius on divine simplicity and predication 127
Conclusion 133
Chapter Four Basil's Critiques of Eunomius's Theory of Names 135
The incomprehensibility and ineffability of God's substance 135
God is not a polyonym 140
Divine simplicity and predication 144
The consequences of the Heteroousian epistemological principle 147
The convertibility of name and substance 150
Conclusion 151
Chapter Five Basil's Notionalist Theory of Names 153
I Basic notions: the foundations of theology 155
Common or natural notions 155
Common usage 158
II Derived notions: Basil's defense of conceptualization 163
Stage one the meaningfulness of conceptualizations 165
Stage two conceptualization according to the common notion 166
Stage three the conceptualizations of Christ 169
Stage four the conceptualizations applied to God 170
Basil's use of Origen 171
III Possible sources for Basil's notionalist theory of names 176
A Neoplatonist background for Basil's notionalist theory of names? 177
The Homoiousian notions of áFather' and áSon' 182
Conclusion 185
Chapter Six Basil on Names as Revelatory of Properties 189
I Proper names 190
Basil's theory of proper names 191
The bundle theory of individuals 196
The persistence of individuals 203
Basil's sources 204
Concluding remarks on Basil's theory of proper names 211
II Absolute names 212
Basil's grammatical description of absolute names 212
Basil's distinguishing marks and Porphyry's propria 219
Concluding remarks on Basil's understanding of absolute names 221
III Relative names 222
The Aristotelian understanding of relatives 224
The grammatical understanding of relatives 234
Basil of Caesarea on relative names 248
Concluding remarks on Basil's theory of relative names 253
IV Derived names 254
Conclusion 259
General Conclusion 261
Bibliography 267
Index Locorum 285
Index of Scripture 291
General Index 293
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Joshua Minchen
reviewed Basil of Caesarea's Anti-Eunomian Theory of Names: Christian Theology and Late-Antique Philosophy in the Fourth Century Trinitarian Controversy on July 18, 2018
Basil of Caesarea's Anti-Eunomian Theory of Names
First of all, this book isn't horrible because the things it says aren't true. I think that the things in here are generally ok in terms of what's said - it's a collection of 1-2 page "observations" or "meditations" on small leadership principles. If you're looking for a sort of devotional book or a vague book about how to apply some generally true (regardless of religious affiliation) ideas with biblical language behind them, this book is fine.
But it's precisely that vagueness that kills me. It takes pieces of scripture and simply uses them to arrive at a predetermined conclusion. The context or setting of that scripture is irrelevant. There's no attempt to put the scriptures in their original context. No attempt to try and bridge the gap between an ancient near Eastern culture and a modern or post-modern American one. It's the worst kind of biblical study - the kind that just uses the bible to support what we already think of. I think a lot of us do it, but it's not something we should do.
Like I said - I don't think there's anything here that's terribly untrue or heretical. It's just blah. I would hope spiritual leadership would be better or different than modern or corporate leadership. I would hope that it would help overturn the "powers and principalities" of the world. If that's true, it's not represented here.
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