Prisca Sapientia: Between History, Theology, and Natural Philosophy
Prisca Sapientia: Between History, Theology, and Natural Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: Intellectual traditions tell a story about themselves. The story told by the Renaissance concept of prisca sapientia is at once powerful and laden with profound implications for early modern Christianity, natural philosophy, and humans’ place in the cosmos. Scattered through the writings of the most revered pagan sages of the ancient East lay fragments of a primordial divine revelation, as old or perhaps even older than the Bible, preserved across millennia and eventually recovered in the 15th century.

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