Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism

by Jaroslav Pelikan

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0300062559

ISBN13:9780300062557

Release Date:February 1995

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.34 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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