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
_Gnosis_ (γνῶσις) as a tendency, 129, 130;
side by side with “_pistis_” in Catholicism, 130-134, cf. 323 ff.
and 339-341;
as well as in Neo-Platonism, 133.
Gnosticism between two fires, 9;
allegorizes the Old Testament, 70;
also the Gospel, 75.
Its cosmogonies, 190;
evolutional types, 190-198;
hypothesis of a lapse, 198;
opposition from without and within, 193 fin.;
Basilides on matter and God, 195, 196.
Idea of transcendence, 251:
e.g. Basilides and Marcus, 254.
Modalism, 257 ff.
Connecting link with the Mysteries, 305 ff.;
e.g. _unction_ and sacramental realism, 306, 308, 309.
Attitude to tradition and the Scriptures, 325.
Grammar in Greek education, 28 ff.
γραμματική, and γραμματιστική, 28 fin.;
its elements, 29, 30.
Guilds: see _Associations_.
Hellenism characterized, 13, 14.
Heresy, original use of term, 340, n. ³.
Hippolytus, 6;
his theory of creation, 203.
History, its difficulties and rewards, 22-24.
Homer in Greek thought, 51 ff.;
in Christian theology, 69, 70.
Homily, the, 109-113.
_Homoousios_ (ὁμοούσιος) shared senses of “_ousia_,” 272;
first used of God by the Gnostics, 274;
its ambiguity, 274-276.
_Hyparxis_ (ὕπαρξις) = “_hypostasis_,” 275, especially n. ².
_Hypostasis_ (ὑπόστασις), relation to “_ousia_,” 275;
gradually specialized = πρώτη οὐσία, 276 f.;
further defined by aid of “_prosôpon_” (πρόσωπον) through use of
“_persona_,” 277, 278;
usage often doubtful, 278.
ἱεράρχης and cognate terms for ministrants, 303, n. ¹.
Immortality in the Mysteries, 289, 290.
Initiation (τελετή): its stages, 284, n. ³;
its idea, 285.
Proclamation, 285, 286;
confession and baptism (κάθαρσις, λουτρόν), 287;
sacrifice, procession, &c., 287, 288;
mystic drama, its nature, 288-290.
Inspiration in Greece, connected with rhythm, 51.
Irenæus, 8:
his theory of creation, 202, 203;
on Justice and Goodness in God, 228;
on free-will, 231;
his _Logos_ doctrine, 262, 263, cf. 266, n. ¹, 267, n. ⁴;
view of the Eucharistic elements, 302, n. ¹.
Judaism as basis of Christian theology, 238, 239.
Justin Martyr, 8;
on Christianity and philosophy, 126;
on free-will, 231;
on God’s transcendence, 253;
_Logos_ doctrine, 261, 262;
genesis of the _Logos_, 266;
nature of the _Logos_, 267, 268.
_Logoi_ (λόγοι), Stoical (= laws), 180;
compared with Platonic “ideas,” 181, 182, cf. 180;
appear in Philo’s “forces,” 185;
their sum the _Logos_, 176, 180, 182.
_Logos_, the, in Philo, 247 ff.;
relation to God, 249, 250;
and “_logoi_,” 259-261;
growth of _Logos_ doctrine, 261-263;
genesis of the _Logos_, 263, 264;
προφορικὸς and ἐνδιάθετος, 265, n. ¹;
nature of the _Logos_, 267, 268.
Lucian and the Antiochene exegesis, 81, 82.
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