The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian churchHatch, Edwin
Philosophy
The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian church
Hatch, Edwin
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Philosophy -- History; Philosophy, Ancient; Theology, Doctrinal
Dio Chrysostom characterized, 6;
on “_askesis_,” 150.
Dionysius Areopagites sums up the influence of the “mysteries,” 303,
304.
Discipline, early Christian, 162 ff.;
in _Apost. Const._ Bk. ii., 162, 163;
its Puritan ideal, 163;
later “_corpus permixtum_” idea, 164.
Dogma (δόγμα), its original sense, 119, 120;
later Dogmatism, 121-123;
the age of Dogmatism, 280.
Dualism and Baptism, 19;
and Stoicism, _ib._;
its basis, 175;
Platonic, 177;
variously expressed, 178-180;
later modified, 181;
in Christian theories of creation, 194, 195;
transition in Tatian, 195.
Ebionites become “heretics,” 132;
as Conservatives, 252, n. ².
Education, Greek, 26 ff.;
its forms literary, 27;
mainly Grammar and Rhetoric, 28 ff.;
the poets its main study, 30;
also a _littérateur_ philosophy, 32 ff.;
spite of protest, 34;
its extent, 35 ff.
Epictetus characterized, 6;
as moral reformer, 142 ff.;
his attitude, 143, 144;
quoted, 144-147;
on “_askesis_,” 149;
his two planes of ethics, 152:
“follow Nature,” 152-155;
“follow God,” 155-158.
Essentia: its bad Latinity a source of disuse, 277, especially n. ³.
Ethics, Greek, 139 ff.
Average morality, 139;
philosophic ethics, 140;
moral reformation in first centuries A.D., 140, 141;
in religious guilds and philosophy, 141;
its relation to Logic and Literature, 142, 143;
in Epictetus, 143 ff.;
moral gymnastic, 147;
_askesis_, 148 ff.;
the “philosopher,” 150 ff.;
contents of ethical teaching, e.g. in Epictetus, 152 ff.
Ethics, Christian, 158-170.
Compared with Greek, 158;
its basis and characteristic idea (sin), 158, 159;
agreement upon value of conduct, 159;
the “Two Ways,” 160, 161;
_Apost. Const._ Bk. i., 161;
_discipline_, earlier and later, 162-164;
Christian _askesis_, 164-168;
deterioration of average ethics, 168, 169;
victory of Greek ethics in Roman Law of Rights, 169, 170.
Evolutionary ideas among the Gnostics, as regards creation, 177,
190-193;
revelation, 257 ff.;
genesis of the _Logos_, 263 ff.
Exorcism in relation to Monism, 20, especially n.;
in Baptism, 307, 308, n. ¹.
Faith (πίστις), history of its usage, 310 ff.;
in Old Testament, 310, 331;
Greek philosophy, 311;
Philo, 311, 312.
Christian form issuing in the _Creed_, 313 ff.;
relation to New Testament Canon, 319 ff.
Further speculative development, 321, 322;
“_gnosis_” by the side of “_pistis_,” 323 ff. and 339-341;
check found in consensus of Bishops, 326;
expansion of Creed, 327;
contrasted uses of term “belief,” 328;
majority and minority views, 229;
recapitulation, 330.
Fitting, the, as a Stoic category, 153, 154;
root of “_officium_” and “_debitum_,” 154, 155.
“Generation, eternal,” 267;
essential, 268;
Origen’s contributions, _ib._
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