Have you ever read Porphyry’s beautiful tribute to his Master and Guru, the wonderful Plotinus; the Platonic Philosopher-Mystic of whom the famous ancient literary critic Longinus admiringly said «set the principles of Pythagoras and of Plato in a clearer light than anyone before him» (and who may have been a close friend of Origen)? You…
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The misconstrual of Plato’s Republic, that St. Augustine quotes Socrates, and other discoveries
Below are some examples of what my master’s thesis in theology and philosophy (which you may download for free, as a PDF, by clicking on this link) achieves in terms of research and discoveries: 1. Introduction: St. Augustine of Hippo (the famous church father) quotes directly from Plato’s Republic (arguably one of the greatest literary…
Why Christian theology studies and a decade of reading ancient texts made me a (Christian) Platonist
In the following, I shall attempt to briefly explain why I am applying for admittance to a doctoral program in philosophy. It may, I freely acknowledge, seem a little odd that someone who has essentially been preparing to become a priest since 2015 would make this decision, at the very time when he is on…
Christmas Musings on the Origin and Future of True Christianity
Was Plato, by virtue of supernatural insight, or some other paranormal power, a “Christian” nearly four centuries before the Incarnation of the Word? That is what some, when confronted with the exceptionally lofty doctrines of Platonism, and the great similarity between some of them and Christianity, have claimed. I do not entirely reject that as…
Visions of the Suprarational: A Study of the Concept of Nous in the Works of Plato and St. Augustine of Hippo
My recently completed master’s thesis, which one could say is the culmination of more than ten years of research into the nature of Platonism and Christianity, mysticism and religion, as well as of a very long personal, spiritual journey, is now available for download as an e-book/PDF-file. This is the longest and most significant literary…
Edmund Schilvold: Skribent, fotograf, filosof, friluftsentusiast 