Early Christian Thinkers

Early Christian Thinkers
Title Early Christian Thinkers PDF eBook
Author Paul Foster
Publisher SPCK
Total Pages 199
Release 2012-04-10
Genre Religion
ISBN 0281065160

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This book introduces twelve key Christians from the second and third centuries, a formative period for the Church. These figures are: Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tatian, Theophilus of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Perpetua, Origen, Hippolytus, Cyprian, Gregory Thaumaturgos and Eusebius. Each chapter is self-contained and requires no preliminary knowledge of the figure under discussion, making this an ideal book for laity and for undergraduates studying Christian origins or Patristics.

The Philosophy of Early Christianity

The Philosophy of Early Christianity
Title The Philosophy of Early Christianity PDF eBook
Author George E. Karamanolis
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 334
Release 2014-09-03
Genre History
ISBN 131754708X

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First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Great Christian Thinkers

Great Christian Thinkers
Title Great Christian Thinkers PDF eBook
Author Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher Fortress Press
Total Pages 330
Release
Genre Religion
ISBN 0800698517

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From Clement of Rome to today, the project of understanding the faith has engaged and impelled some of the West's greatest minds. Here Pope Benedict XVI accessibly and sympathetically reflects on the lives and works of Christianity's chief theologians, teachers, ascetics and mystics up to the end of the Middle Ages.

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
Title The Spirit of Early Christian Thought PDF eBook
Author Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher Yale University Press
Total Pages 211
Release 2003-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 0300127561

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Many of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to reforms and is getting worse. This analysis of the causes underlying the crisis seeks to offer concrete, affordable proposals for effective reform. Vivian Troen and Katherine Boles, two experienced classroom teachers and education consultants, argue that because teachers are recruited from a pool of underqualified candidates, given inadequate preparation, and dropped into a culture of isolation without mentoring, support, or incentives for excellence, they are programmed to fail. Half quit within their first five years. Troen and Boles offer an alternative, a model of reform they call the Millennium School, which changes the way teachers work and improves the quality of their teaching. When teaching becomes a real profession, they contend, more academically able people will be drawn into it, colleges will be forced to improve the quality of their education, and better-prepared teachers will enter the classroom and improve the profession.

The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual

The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual
Title The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual PDF eBook
Author Lewis Ayres
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages 342
Release 2020-05-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 3110608006

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The study of the growth of early Christian intellectual life is of perennial interest to scholars. This volume advances discussion by exploring ways in which Christian writers in the second century did not so much draw on Hellenistic intellectual traditions and models, as they were inevitably embedded in those traditions. The volume contains papers from a seminar in Rome in 2016 that explored the nature and activity of the emergent Christian intellectual between the late first century and the early third century. The papers show that Hellenistic scholarly cultures were the milieu within which Christian modes of thinking developed. At the same time the essays show how Christian thinkers made use of the cultures of which they were part in distinctive ways, adapting existing traditions because of Christian beliefs and needs. The figures studied include Papias from the early part of the second-century, Tatian, Irenaeus, and Clement of Alexandria from the later second century. One paper on Eusebius of Caesarea explores the Christian adaptation of Hellenistic scholarly methods of commentary. Christian figures are studied in the light of debates within Classics and Jewish studies.

Aristotle and Early Christian Thought

Aristotle and Early Christian Thought
Title Aristotle and Early Christian Thought PDF eBook
Author Mark Edwards
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 269
Release 2019-03-13
Genre Religion
ISBN 1315520192

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In studies of early Christian thought, ‘philosophy’ is often a synonym for ‘Platonism’, or at most for ‘Platonism and Stoicism’. Nevertheless, it was Aristotle who, from the sixth century AD to the Italian Renaissance, was the dominant Greek voice in Christian, Muslim and Jewish philosophy. Aristotle and Early Christian Thought is the first book in English to give a synoptic account of the slow appropriation of Aristotelian thought in the Christian world from the second to the sixth century. Concentrating on the great theological topics – creation, the soul, the Trinity, and Christology – it makes full use of modern scholarship on the Peripatetic tradition after Aristotle, explaining the significance of Neoplatonism as a mediator of Aristotelian logic. While stressing the fidelity of Christian thinkers to biblical presuppositions which were not shared by the Greek schools, it also describes their attempts to overcome the pagan objections to biblical teachings by a consistent use of Aristotelian principles, and it follows their application of these principles to matters which lay outside the purview of Aristotle himself. This volume offers a valuable study not only for students of Christian theology in its formative years, but also for anyone seeking an introduction to the thought of Aristotle and its developments in Late Antiquity.

Great Christian Thinkers

Great Christian Thinkers
Title Great Christian Thinkers PDF eBook
Author Hans Küng
Publisher A&C Black
Total Pages 244
Release 1994-05-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780826408488

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An introduction to theologians who greatly affected Christian thought includes portraits of Paul, Origen, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Karl Barth