The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian church

Name: The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian church
Author: Hatch, Edwin

Hatch, Edwin

Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Philosophy -- History; Philosophy, Ancient; Theology, Doctrinal

Transcendence, as of absolute Unity, Being, Mind, 240;
    in Plutarch and Maximus, 242;
    Plotinus, 243;
    its two forms, 244;
    Philo, 244, 245.
    Absent from earliest Christian teaching, 251 f.;
      appears in Apologists, 252, 253;
    Gnostics, 254 f.;
    Alexandrines, 255 f.;
      mediation of, 256 ff., especially 257, n. ².


  Unction of (1) exorcism, (2) thanksgiving, 307, 308, especially n. ¹.


  φύσις (= _natura_), later use = _ousia_, 278;
    sometimes = _hypostasis_, ib.

  φωτισμός, of baptism, 295.


  Writing as mysterious, 50.

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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

Transcendence, as of absolute Unity, Being, Mind, 240;
    in Plutarch and Maximus, 242;
    Plotinus, 243;
    its two forms, 244;
    Philo, 244, 245.
    Absent from earliest Christian teaching, 251 f.;
      appears in Apologists, 252, 253;
    Gnostics, 254 f.;
    Alexandrines, 255 f.;
      mediation of, 256 ff., especially 257, n. ².


  Unction of (1) exorcism, (2) thanksgiving, 307, 308, especially n. ¹.


  φύσις (= _natura_), later use = _ousia_, 278;
    sometimes = _hypostasis_, ib.

  φωτισμός, of baptism, 295.


  Writing as mysterious, 50.

[Illustration]

                     RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED,
                 BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E.,
                           AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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