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Christianity and Classical Culture - The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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Christianity and Classical Culture - The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism (Paperback, Rev Ed)
Series: Gifford Lectures Series
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The momentous encounter between Christian thought and Greek
philosophy reached a high point in fourth-century Byzantium, and
the principal actors were four Greek-speaking Christian thinkers
whose collective influence on the Eastern Church was comparable to
that of Augustine on Western Latin Christendom. In this erudite and
informative book, a distinguished scholar provides the first
coherent account of the lives and writings of these so-called
Cappadocians (named for a region in what is now eastern Turkey),
showing how they managed to be Greek and Christian at the same
time. Jaroslav Pelikan describes the four Cappadocians-Gregory of
Nazianzus, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Macrina, sister
and teacher of the last two-who were trained in Classical culture,
philosophy, and rhetoric but who were also defenders and expositors
of Christian orthodoxy. On one issue of faith and life after
another-the nature of religious language, the ways of knowing, the
existence of God, the universe as cosmos, time, and space, free
will and immortality, the nature of the good life, the purpose of
the universe-they challenged and debated the validity of the Greek
philosophical tradition in interpreting Scripture. Because the way
they resolved these issues became the very definition of normative
Christian belief, says Pelikan, their system is still a key to our
understanding not only of Christianity's diverse religious
traditions but also of its intellectual and philosophical
traditions. This book is based on the prestigious Gifford Lectures,
presented by Jaroslav Pelikan at the University of Aberdeen in 1992
and 1993.
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