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SKU (ISBN): 9780521430784
ISBN10: 052143078X
Eric Osborn
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: April 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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There are special times of movement in the history of ideas, and one such time – as the author of this study shows – was the second half of the second century, when Christian thought showed fresh vigour. By concentrating on five seminal Christian thinkers of the second century (Justin, Athenegoras, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian), Eric Osborn illustrates how it was that Christianity made monotheism axiomatic to its central doctrinal claims while adapting, too, to the peculiar circumstances in which it developed. The stimulus for new thought came from the objections of the state, philosophers, Jews, Gnostics, and Marcion, who in different ways denied the Christian claim to faith in one God. In response, Christian thinkers argued for one God who was the first principle of being, goodness, and truth. In its presentation of the lively beginning which brought Christianity and classical thought together, this book casts light on the growth of the European intellectual tradition.
SKU (ISBN): 9780521430784
ISBN10: 052143078X
Eric Osborn
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: April 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print On Demand Product
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