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Subject(s)

• Soul—Christianity—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Apologetics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Apologetics—History—Early church, ca. 30-600 [Browse]
• Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230—De anima [Browse]

Editor

• Leal, Jerónimo [Browse]
• Waszink, J. H. (Jan Hendrik), 1908-1990 [Browse]

Writer of supplementary textual content

• Leal, Jerónimo [Browse]

Writer of introduction

• Leal, Jerónimo [Browse]

Translator

• Mattei, Paul [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Apologetic writings [Browse]

Series

• Sources chrétiennes ; no 601. [More in this series]
• Sources chrétiennes, 0750-1978 ; no 601 [More in this series]

Contains

• Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230. De anima. Latin (Leal) [Browse]
• Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230. De anima. French (Mattei) [Browse]

Summary note

Composé vers 210-211, le traité De l'âme de Tertullien est l'oeuvre fondatrice d'un genre littéraire dans la littérature chrétienne. Se démarquant de Platon et se référant au stoïcisme, le polémiste latin s'y oppose aux tenants (gnostiques) de la préexistence et de la transmigration de l'âme. Parmi bien d'autres traits originaux, il défend notamment sa " corporéité " -- il crée aussi tout un vocabulaire nouveau -- qui font de l'oeuvre un écrit sans précédent. Nourri des traditions médicales de son temps, il s'intéresse également à l'animation et au développement de l'embryon, au sexe de l'âme, au rapport de celle-ci avec le corps, et aux rêves. Théologien, il s'interroge sur la mort et sur le destin de l'âme après la mort. Entre philosophie, médecine, " psychologie ", théologie et littérature, le traité du Carthaginois, ici introduit et traduit d'après un nouveau texte critique, est un ouvrage de référence pour les écrivains chrétiens ultérieurs comme pour la réflexion contemporaine. --From publisher's description.

Notes

The Latin text is essentially the edition edited by J.H. Waszink in volume 2 of Quinti Septimi Florentis Tertulliani Opera, published Turnholti : Typographi Brepols Editores Pontificii, 1954. Correction of misprints, noted by Pierre Petitmengin in "Errata Tertullianea", which appeared in volume 2 of Hommage à René Braun, published Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1990, as well as corrections noted by some others have been incorporated. Includes additional minor editorial changes to the text, including differences in transcription and filling in small gaps in the text of De anima found in Waszink's transcription from the Codex Agobardinus manuscript, with text found in manuscript editions which were recovered at a later date. The critical apparatus of Waszink was also simplified. Differences between the present edition of the text and that of Waszink are noted on page 111, differences between the critical apparatus of the present edition and that of Waszink are noted on page 110--Cited from pages 109-110.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-131) and indexes.

Language note

Text in the original Latin with French translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in French.

Other title(s)

Tertullien De l'âme

ISBN

• 9782204130004 ((paperback))
• 2204130001 ((paperback))

OCLC

1129182909

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