/lit/ - Literature

>>16525159
Most of the gnostic texts we have are post-plotinian
There's not a western philosopher in history, after him, that hasn't been directly or indirectly influenced by him.

>>16498059
I'm talking about the councils, the councils are next to nothing after scripture, the church fathers as a whole (no individual above any other) are next to the councils.
The point of tradition is that no man is 100% correct, and even if they are or you are, you should doubt your own fallen intellect and submit to the many contesting viewS of those much wiser than you and I and out of them find the common thread of shared truth. The church only dogmatize what's mostly unanimous not what Augustine and three others alone said.
Still, I chose to do this with the far older tradition (Egypt-platonism). Than to cherry pick out of Christianity what sounds nice to my opinion, there's no middle ground, Orthodoxy/Catholicism or rejection of the Bible which they put together. I chose the latter. I'm agnostic about christ, he is or isn't Dionysus/Osiris/Horus/Adonis/Liber/Odin/Sabazios/Nous/Eros/Sophia/Beauty, he could be but I neither affirm or deny that. To actively affirm him abd the Bible leads undeniably to one of the Orthodox churches, the Bible refutes protestantism.

>>16368261
I literally said how.
Christianity and Platonism was in debates for half a millennia, and the appeal of Platonism was pretty much felt by every single big church father every century became more and more platonic, but in comes the Areopagite implying "neo"platonic ideas have been Christian Doctrine all along! And everyone took the bait, probably because every intelligent person subconsciously wants to be a Platonist. Especially Maximus the Confessor. Orthodox/Catholic Christianity is watered-down Neoplatonism.
Within the same three years that the Platonic Academy in Athens was banned the Dionysian Corpus was first cited/published. Likely written on the journey from Greece to Persia by the six exiled philosophers (who were quite infamous—which is why the were banned, it is theorized that Damascius had begun reversing the decline of "paganism" in Athens). Pic related covers all the parallels.