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

By:

Pelikan, Jaroslav

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Gifford lectures at AberdeenPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1993Description: xvi, 368 p. : map ; 25 cmISBN:

97803000555420300055544

Subject(s):

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

LOC classification:

BL245 .P45 1993

Contents:

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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English Books	GETS Theological Seminary Library	GETS Theological Seminary Library	BL245 .P45 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00027856

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