Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. V, 1950 Heresies & schisms

Aeon

EONE

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Also known as: Greek: Aiones; aeons

AEON. - According to the conceptions of the Gnostics, inherited from the ancient Eastern mythologies, the aeons are the personification of abstract concepts, emanated directly from God in ever less perfect forms, or produced by successive generations of pairs (syzygies), of which only the first has its origin directly from God. The totality of the aeons constitutes the pleroma (fullness), a necessary intermediary between the inaccessible divine being and creation. Christ himself is considered as a restoring aeon of the fullness of the pleroma (v. GNOSI).

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BIBL.: L. Duchesne, Storia della Chiesa antica, I, Rome 1911, p. 87 ff.; W. Bousser, Platons Weltsee und das Kreuz Christi, in Zeitschrift für N. T. Wissenschaft, 14 (1913), pp. 273-85; G. Barville, Gnosticisme, in DThC, XII, coll. 1434-1467; Fliche-Martin-Frutz, II, p. 6 ff.

Giuliano Gennaro

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By Giuliano Gennaro

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), col. 402.

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Gennaro, Giuliano. “Eone.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 402. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/eone.

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Gennaro, Giuliano. “Eone.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 402. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/eone.

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  title     = {Eone},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {402},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/eone}
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