| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses studies from 1959 to 2009 on the survival of magic arts and Neoplatonist theurgy, with a focus on a lecture delivered in 1959 by A.A. Barb at the Warburg Institute for cultural history in London, England, at a conference on conflicts between Paganism and Christianity in the fourth century. Topics include scholarly research on the study of pagan religions and beliefs in the period of Late Antiquity; the definition of the philosophical doctrine of theurgy for ritual practices which aim at spiritual revelation; and the nature of magical arts practiced by pagan philosophers in the fourth century. |
