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
Plutarch, 6;
quoted for transcendence, 242;
immortality through “initiation,” 289.
Poetry, its place in the Greek mind, 51 ff.
Political analogies in the Church, 331.
Preaching and “prophesying,” 105 ff.;
of composite origin, 107-109;
the “homily,” 109-113.
Prophecy and divination, 72, 73;
and apologetic, 74;
died with formation of Catholic Church, 107.
πρόσωπον, how used, 278, especially n. ¹;
see _hypostasis_.
Ptolemæus, on God’s transcendence, 251;
his idea of “Æons,” 258 fin., 259.
Puritanism in early Church, 347, 348.
Pythagoreanism and Christianity, 81, 129.
Religion, its political aspect to the Roman, 21;
connected with usage (νόμος), 21, n.
Revelation and metaphysics, 137, 138.
Rhetoric, Greek, 87, 88.
“Rule of Faith:” see _Faith_.
σοφός, its later usage, 26.
Sophistic, its genesis, 87, 88;
mainly on lines of the older Rhetoric, 88-90;
popularized in διαλέξεις, 91;
and itinerant, 92-94;
manner of discourse, 94-97;
its rewards, 97, 98;
and airs, 99.
Objections, 99-101;
reaction led by Stoics like Epictetus, 101-105.
Speculation, its true place in Christianity, 332, 333.
State, its interference with doctrine, 279 f., 345-347.
Stoicism: its view of substance, 19, n.;
and the moral reformation, 141 ff.;
its ethics in Ambrose, 169;
ethical affinities with Christianity, 238;
dæmons, 246.
_Substantia_ at first = _hypostasis_, then _ousia_, 277, cf. 278.
Supper, the Lord’s:
extra-biblical developments, 300 ff.;
in _Didaché_, 300, 301;
_Apost. Const._ Bks. ii. and viii, 301;
the “altar,” its “mysteries,” the sacred formula, 302 and n. ⁶;
“priest,” 303;
culmination in Dionysius, 303, 304;
realism first among Gnostics, 308, 309.
_Symboli traditio_, 298:
cf. _contesseratio_, 344.
σφραγίς, of baptism, 295.
Tatian:
his view of creation, 196;
free-will, 231;
on genesis of _Logos_, 266, n. ¹ and n. ⁵, 267, n. ³.
Teaching profession, 37 ff.;
endowed, 38;
excused public burdens, 39.
τελετή, τελεῖσθαι: see _initiation_, cf. 296.
Tertullian, 8;
his Stoic view of substance, 19, n., 20, n., cf. 254;
on Christianity and philosophy, 126, 127;
the Conservatives, 131, 257, n. ¹;
on creation, 197;
on God as just and good, 229;
on free-will, 232;
transcendence in him supra-cosmic, 254;
genesis of the _Logos_, 265, n. ¹;
nature of the _Logos_, 268;
on ecclesiastical tradition and speculation, 322.
Theodore of Mopsuestia as exegete, 82.
Theophilus on creation, 196;
God’s transcendence, 253;
on genesis of _Logos_, 265, n. ¹, cf. 268.
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