S 3 ep 2: Neoplatonic Demonology & Texas Brisket

<p><span>This episode is all about non-Christian, Greek-philosophical perspectives on demons and their role in the universe that were developing around the formative stages of Christian theology. Neoplatonism would go on to influence late-ancient and medieval Christianity and so we start to track its effects in this episode.</span></p><p><br></p><p><a href="brill.com/view/title/38745"; rel="nofollow"><em>Neoplatonic Demons and Angels</em>, ed. Luc Brisson</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="classics.mit.edu/Plotinus/enneads.html"; rel="nofollow">Plotinus, <em>Enneads</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="tertullian.org/fathers/porphyry_abstinence_02_…; rel="nofollow">Porphyry, <em>On Abstinence from Animal Food, </em>Bk. 2</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="plato.stanford.edu/entries/iamblichus/"; rel="nofollow">“Iamblichus” by </a><a href="plato.stanford.edu/entries/iamblichus/"; rel="nofollow">Riccardo Chiaradonna & Adrien Lecerf </a><span>at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</span></p><p><br></p><p><a href="plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/"; rel="nofollow">“Plotinus” by Lloyd Gerson</a><span> at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</span></p><p><br></p><p><a href="plato.stanford.edu/entries/porphyry/#Rel"; rel="nofollow">“Porphyry” by </a><a href="plato.stanford.edu/entries/porphyry/#Rel"; rel="nofollow">Eyjólfur Emilsson</a><span> at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</span></p><p><br></p>