Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks

Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks

Author: Simone Weil

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-28

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1000964930

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Simone Weil is one of the greatest philosophical and spiritual writers of the 20th century and was hailed by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our times' This book is a classic - and controversial - for the way Weil argues that key themes that later defined Christian belief are first found in ancient Greek writers and philosophers Waiting for God, also by Weil and published in Routledge Classics in 2021, has sold almost 1,000 copies in just over a year Includes a new foreword by Christopher Hamilton


Intimations of Christianity Among The Greeks

Intimations of Christianity Among The Greeks

Author: Simone Weil

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-25

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 100016022X

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This book is a collection of Simone Weil's writings, which reflect her intellectual and spiritual concerns, on Greek thought. It discusses how precursors to Christian religious ideas can be found in ancient Greek mythology, literature and philosophy.


Address to the Greeks

Address to the Greeks

Author: Tatian the Assyrian

Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company

Published: 2019-12-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1987022815

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Oratio ad Graecos (Address to the Greeks) condemns paganism as worthless, and praises the reasonableness and high antiquity of Christianity. As early as Eusebius, Tatian was praised for his discussions of the antiquity of Moses and of Jewish legislation, and it was because of this chronological section that his Oratio was not generally condemned.


Early Christianity and Greek Paideia

Early Christianity and Greek Paideia

Author: Werner Jaeger

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780674220522

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This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized. Werner Jaeger shows that without the large postclassical expansion of Greek culture the rise of a Christian world religion would have been impossible. He explains why the Hellenization of Christianity was necessary in apostolic and postapostalic times; points out similarities between Greek philosophy and Christian belief; discuss such key figures as Clement, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa; and touches on the controversies that led to the ultimate complex synthesis of Greek and Christian thought.


Studies on Ancient Christianity

Studies on Ancient Christianity

Author:

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780860789765

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This third collection of articles by Henry Chadwick brings together a series of studies on Augustine, written in light of the new texts now available, and on other individual Christian authors of antiquity, in other words of the age when Christianity was acquiring its now familiar shape. A number of papers published here appear in print for the first time, or make accessible to English readers studies which first saw the light in German. These include a substantial discussion of the idea of conscience, important in the highly ethical context of early Christianity, and a study of ancient anthologies, and are complemented by other essays on general themes in the history of the early Church.