Saturday, July 09, 2016

Review of O’Brien, The Demiurge in Ancient Thought

REVIEWS OF BIBLICAL AND EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES: The Demiurge in Ancient Thought.
2016.06.09 | Carl Séan O’Brien, The Demiurge in Ancient Thought: Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9781107075368, £65.00.

Review by Paul Linjamaa, Lund University.


This book is a convenient and detailed compilation of ideas concerning the Demiurge and “demiurgry” in ancient thought—ideas on how the cosmos was generated and how matter was ordered and sustained. The work is the published version of a PhD-dissertation at Trinity College, Dublin.

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