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Pelikan, Jaroslav, 1923-2006.

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 pages : maps ; 25 cm - Gifford lectures at Aberdeen ; 1992-1993 . - Gifford lectures ; 1992-1993 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-351) and indexes

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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ISBN: 0300055544 9780300055542 0300062559 9780300062557

LCCN: 92042407

Nat. Bib. No.: GB9349050 bnb

Subjects--Personal Names:
Macrina, the Younger, Saint, approximately 330-379 or 380

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Natural theology--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
Cappadocian Fathers
Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
Civilization, Classical
Christian literature, Early--Greek influences

LC Class. No.: BL245 / .P45 1993

Dewey Class. No.: ARCH YNDC 210.93 P384C

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 276"03" 23:281.2