Christianity and Classical Culture
Subtitle: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism (Gifford Lectures Series)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 22, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780300062557
Subjects: Ancient Greek religion; Christian theology; Cultural studies; Philosophy of religion; Theology; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Christianity - History - General; Sculpture; Art / Sculpture; Religion - Church History; Religion
First sentence: It remains one of the most momentous linguistic convergences in the entire history of the human mind and spirit that the New Testament happens to have been written in Greeknot in the Hebrew of Moses and the prophets, nor in the Aramaic of Jesus and his disciples, nor yet in the Latin of the imperium Romanum, but in the Greek of Socrates and Plato, or at any rate in a reasonably accurate facsimile thereof, disguised and even disfigured though this was in the Koine by the intervening centuries of Hellenistic usage.