Neo-Platonic

• a word derived from Neo-Platonism.
  Neo-Platonism

  noun

  a philosophical system which was first developed in the 3rd century _ad as a synthesis of Platonic, Pythagorean, and Aristotelian elements, and which, although originally opposed to Christianity, later incorporated it. It dominated European thought until the 13th century and re-emerged during the Renaissance

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Neo-Platonic

At 14 he entered Harvard; at 18 he was graduated; at 30 he had lost his first wife, his faith in his clerical calling, everything but his faith in himself and Nature's Neo-Platonic Over-Soul.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Neo-Platonic union with the deity was too vague a conception to bring about communal worship, and the deity had no definite rôle in securing the salvation of men.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow

I, is much better known; in like manner the Neo-Platonic.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar

This latter condition saves the Neo-Platonic conception from being a pure system of emanation like some Indian doctrines.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

Here we see just a touch of the Neo-Platonic doctrine of emanation, of which the Universal Intellect is the first.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

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