- 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
Inventing Superstition
From the Hippocratics to the Christians
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Publication Date: 03/01/2007
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