Inventing Superstition

From the Hippocratics to the Christians

Dale B. Martin

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ISBN 9780674024076

Publication Date: 03/01/2007

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320 pages

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Preface
1. Superstitious Christians
2. Problems of Definition
3. Inventing Deisidaimonia: Theophrastus, Religious Etiquette, and Theological Optimism
4. Dealing with Disease: The Hippocratics and the Divine
5. Solidifying a New Sensibility: Plato and Aristotle on the Optimal Universe
6. Diodorus Siculus and the Failure of Philosophy
7. Cracks in the Philosophical System: Plurarch and the Philosophy of Demons
8. Galen on the Necessity of Nature and the Theology of Teleology
9. Roman Superstitio and Roman Power
10. Celsus and the Attack on Christianity
11. Origen and the Defense of Christianity
12. The Philosophers Turn: Philosophical Daimons in Late Antiquity
13. Turning the Tables: Eusebius, the “Triumph” of Christianity, and the Superstition of the Greeks
Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of a Grand Optimal Illusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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