Sentences with phrase «greek philosophical ideas»

The Hebrew mind, as represented in the Scriptures, did its thinking in a metaphorical fashion; indeed it might be said that the Jews thought mythologically, if by this word we mean that they thought in pictures and in stories, rather than in abstract concepts and Greek philosophical ideas.

I know the types of theology above are not comprehensive, and are also based on Greek philosophical ideas for the arrangement of knowledge.

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There were philosophical debates among Greek philosophers as to exactly what this word means, but common to their usage was the idea expressed in the adage, «two substances can not occupy the same space at the same time.»

= > you talk of the God of Abraham as if he is a philosophical idea like the Greek notion of Areté.

In three epochs science has suggested philosophical ideas: the Greek period, the seventeenth century, and the twentieth century.

The classical Christian idea of an aloof, immutable, independent God, representing simplicity and rest, he argues, has much more in common with certain philosophical abstractions inherited from the Greeks.