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Cover\nThe Metaphysics of Light in the Hexaemeral Literature: From Philo of Alexandria to Gregory of Nyssa\nCopyright\nAcknowledgements\nContents\nList of Abbreviations\nIntroduction\n 0.1 What Do We Mean When We Speak of the ‘Metaphysics of Light’?\n 0.2 What This Book Aims to Achieve\n 0.3 Old Wine in New Skins: From Light Language to the Concept of Light\n 0.3.1 Boyancé’s Challenge\n 0.3.2 A Challenge Still Not Met\n 0.3.3 The Need for a Fresh Start\n1: ‘From Sight to Light’: A Hexaemeral Guide for the Perplexed\n 1.1 The Intelligibility of Hexaemeral Light\n 1.2 The Oculocentric Thesis\n 1.3 Three Arguments for Oculocentrism in the Hexaemeral Literature\n 1.3.1 Sight Fantastic\n 1.3.2 A World with a View\n 1.3.3 A Christocentric Vision of Creation\n 1.4 Rethinking Oculocentrism\n 1.4.1 Narrowing down the Scope\n 1.4.2 Sight Is Light\n 1.4.3 From the Phenomenal to the Noumenal\n2: The Light of the World: Hexaemeral Physics and Anti-Physics\n 2.1 Science at the Service of Scripture\n 2.2 In Defence of Hexaemeral Physics\n 2.2.1 Origen and His Legacy\n 2.2.2 Introducing Gregory’s Apology\n 2.2.3 Approaching Nature through the Lens of Scripture: Physics as Hermeneutics\n 2.3 Enter Light\n 2.3.1 A Look behind the Scenes: The Hexaemeral Theory of Change\n 2.3.2 A (Meta-)Physics of Power Causality: The Consubstantiality of Fire and Light\n3: The Nature of Light: The Dawn of the First Material Form\n 3.1 Between Physics and Metaphysics: The ‘Immateriality’ of Light\n 3.1.1 Scriptural Questions\n 3.1.2 Philosophical Investigations\n 3.1.3 Cappadocian Answers\n 3.1.4 Hexaemeral Physics\n 3.1.5 Hexaemeral Hermeneutics\n 3.2 Going Ballistic: The Singularity of the Light Ray\n 3.2.1 Rectilinearity\n 3.2.2 Light Mechanics\n 3.2.3 Light Kinetics\n 3.2.4 The Speed of Light\n 3.2.5 Introducing Field Theory\n 3.3 The Metaxu of Light: A Metaphysical Note on the Medium\n 3.3.1 A Medium of Light?\n 3.3.2 Transparency and Brightness\n 3.3.3 Light Semantics as Key to Light Hermeneutics\n 3.4 The Metaphysics of Light: A Hermeneutical Coda\n 3.4.1 A Dual Aspect Interpretation\n 3.4.2 Back to Origen\n 3.4.3 Philonic Beginnings\nConclusions\nAPPENDIX A: Response to a Critic, or What Is the History of Optics Really About?\nAPPENDIX B: What Is the Colour of Light?\n 1.\n 2.\nAPPENDIX C: ‘Light from Light’, or What Is the Meaning of Doxa and Apaugasma?\nBibliography\n I. Critical Editions of Ancient Works Cited\n II. Secondary Bibliography\nIndex of Passages\nIndex of Persons and Names\nSubject Index\nGlossary