Neo-Platonism

A strand of philosophy grounded in Platonic thought and which sought to synthesize Plato’s philosophy with multiple other increasingly influential views about the world, including Gnosticismis a broad label covering a wide range of non-orthodox forms of Christianity which proliferated in the early Church that devalued the material world a... more, Christianity, and Judaism. Neo-Platonism thus took on a distinctly religious, or mystical, flavor.