Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism

by Jaroslav Pelikan

Book Overview

The momentous encounter between Christian thought and Greek philosophy reached a high point in fourth-century Byzantium, and the principal actors were four Greek-speaking Christian thinkers whose collective influence on the Eastern Church was comparable to that of Augustine on Western Latin Christendom. In this erudite and informative book, a distinguished scholar provides the first coherent account of the lives and writings of these so-called Cappadocians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300062559
• ISBN13: 9780300062557
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"