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
Marcion, his ditheistic tendency, 227, 230;
his idea of a Canon, 321;
his literal method, 325.
Marcus: syncretistic grouping of metaphors under term “_logoi_,” 190;
God’s transcendence, 255.
Maximus of Tyre, 6;
quoted for God’s transcendence, 242.
Mediation of God’s transcendence: see _Logos_.
Metaphysics and revelation, 137, 138.
Modalism, its two types, 257 ff.
Monachism: parallel of Greek and Christian, 167, 168;
a reaction, 348, 349.
Monarchianism a witness to older “Monarchia,” 206, 207.
Monism, in baptism and exorcism, 20;
its basis, 175;
Stoic, 175-177;
self-evolution of God, 177.
Montanism: a survival of “prophecy,” 107;
a reaction, 339.
Mysteries: their connection with allegory, 66;
Greek, 283;
_initiation_ at Eleusis, 284 ff.;
together with religious _guilds_ affect Christianity, 292 ff.;
generally, 293;
specially as to _Baptism_, 294 ff.;
and _Lord’s Supper_, 300 ff.;
culmination of influence, 303-305;
Gnostics a bridge, 305 ff.
General result, 309.
μύησις, μυσταγωγός, 296, 297.
Natura: see φύσις.
νόμος καινός, 158, cf. 159-162 (especially note).
Novatianism a Puritan reaction, 347, 348.
Ocellus Lucanus on idea of transcendence (supra-cosmic), 242, n. ¹.
Origen, 8:
his apologetic use of allegorism, 77, 78;
defence of it, 80;
his cosmogony a theodicy, 204-206;
its grand scale, 233-237;
shapes _Logos_ doctrine, 267 (especially n. ⁴), 268;
his _De principiis_ the first dogmatic system, 323.
_Ousia_ (οὐσία), three Aristotelian senses [(i.) = _hylê_; (ii.) =
_substantia concreta_; (iii.) = _subst. abstracta_], 269, 270.
Its later history in Platonic realism, 271, 272.
Difficulties in its application to God, 273 f.;
not popularly understood, 279.
Paul of Samosata, his case, 345, 346, cf. 326.
_Persona_ appropriated for _hypostasis_, 277, 278.
Philo and Philonian writings a valuable bridge, 7, 128, 182;
his allegorism, 67-69;
his “literal” _v._ “deeper” sense compared with Christian exegesis,
72;
God the ultimate cause, 182, 183;
monistic elements, 183, 184;
dualistic, 184, 185;
his “forces,” in plurality, 185, 186;
and unity, 186, 187;
but God is Creator or Father, 187, 188;
God’s transcendence, 244 ff.;
intermediaries, 247;
distinctions in God’s nature, 247 ff.
Philosophy in Greek education, 32 ff.;
as a profession, 40 ff.;
its “_damnosa hereditas_,” 138;
its decay amid dogma, and legacy to Christendom, 280, 281.
Philosopher, the, as moral reformer, 150;
outward marks, 151.
Platonism and Christianity, 81, 129;
its theological affinity, 238;
Plato author of transcendence proper, 240, 241, and n. ¹;
God’s transcendence, 241-243;
dæmons, 246.
Plotinus on transcendence, 243;
genesis of _Logos_, 266, n. ⁵.
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