The problems which Christians faced in the second-century world,
with its variety of religious beliefs, have a close relation to
those which confront them today. The new religion was presented
with a range of external threats and criticism which evoked a
vigourous, fundamental and imaginative response. The arguments of
this most creative period of Christian thought were of a more
general and philosophical kind than the discussions of dogmatic
issues in the fourth and fifth centuries, and are properly regarded
as the beginning of Christian philosophy, though this does not of
course imply the emergence of a 'system' or a uniformly
philosophical level of writing. Professor Osborn's method in this
book, derived from analytic philosophy, is to elucidate specific
questions which occupied four major writers from different centres
of early Christianity: Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of
Alexandria. Is there one God and can one speak of him? Is man free
and has he any link with God? Why has a good God made a world in
which evil is so evident? Has history a meaning? Who is Jesus
Christ?
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