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Christianity and classical culture : the metamorphosis of natural theology in the Christian encounter with Hellenism /

Pelikan, Jaroslav

Christianity and classical culture : the metamorphosis of natural theology in the Christian encounter with Hellenism / Jaroslav Pelikan - New Haven : Yale University Press, 1993 - xvi, 368 p. : map ; 25 cm. - Gifford lectures at Aberdeen ; .

pt. 1. Natural theology as apologetics. Classical culture and Christian theology ; Natural theology as apologetics ; The language of negation ; God and the ways of knowing ; The many and the one ; The universe as cosmos ; Space, time, and deity ; The image of god ; The source of all good ; From Tyche to Telos. -- pt. 2. Natural theology as presupposition. Christian theology and classical culture ; Natural theology as presupposition ; The lexicon of transcendence ; Faith as the fulfillment of reason ; The one and the three ; Cosmos as contingent creation ; The economy of salvation ; The metamorphosis of human nature ; The worship offered by rational creatures ; The life of the aeon to come. -- Glossary of Greek technical terms from sources ancient and modern.

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Macrina, the Younger, Saint, approximately 330-379 or 380.Basil, Saint, abp. of Caesarea in Cappadocia.Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint.

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