It’s rarely noted that Platonists & Manichaeans shared a theory of the afterlife – reincarnation – that once seemed unnervingly close to Christianity. Why did early Christianity reject the idea of (human-to-inhuman) reincarnation? I’ll be talking about one aspect of this today at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 17.30 hours, Faculty of Humanities, Múzeum körút 4/B, room 217.
