neo-platonism in English

noun
1
a philosophical and religious system developed by the followers of Plotinus in the 3rd century ad.
Such was the change of climate brought about by centuries of religious thought deeply influenced by Plato and Neoplatonism , with their emphasis on the soul and the spiritual and their denigration of the bodily.

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1. Lewis came to the faith by means of what one could loosely term Neo-Platonism.

2. Apophatic theology developed in the church in an effort to speak to or accommodate Platonism, Middle Platonism, and Neo-Platonism

3. In view of the Neo-Platonism on which his doctrines were founded and of his spiritual-allegorical method of explaining the Holy Scriptures, he could not abide with the Millennarians.

4. In the revival of neo-Platonism Renaissance humanists did not reject Christianity; quite the contrary, many of the Renaissance's greatest works were devoted to it, and the Church patronized many works of Renaissance art.