TY - BOOK AU - Pelikan,Jaroslav TI - Christianity and classical culture: the metamorphosis of natural theology in the Christian encounter with Hellenism T2 - Gifford lectures at Aberdeen SN - 0300055544 AV - BL245 .P45 1993 U1 - ARCH YNDC 210.93 P384C 20 PY - 1993/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Macrina, KW - Natural theology KW - History of doctrines KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Cappadocian Fathers KW - Christianity and culture KW - History KW - Civilization, Classical KW - Christian literature, Early KW - Greek influences N1 - 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 ER -