Sentences with phrase «greek philosophical thought»

It was not an easy problem to resolve, and it was immensely complicated by the fact that when the disciples of Jesus began preaching his message, they took the message westward, where they immediately encountered Greek philosophical thought.

Not exact matches

I think coming from a fundamentalist background, seeing the Greek philosophical uses of this terminology helps me recover a sense of a non-legalistic meaning and it avoids the problem of how you could be righteous without actually fully being so.

Indeed in [E], the history of ancient thought is overviewed and perceived as having presented God in the image of an imperial ruler (Christian theology), a personification of moral energy (Hebrew thought) and an ultimate philosophical principle (Greek thought).

But where Scot thinks it's true, I think it's a distortion - an example of syncretism to Greek philosophical dualism and Roman imperial politics.

But for those who could think only in Greek philosophical categories, this was not clear or sufficient.

But there are all sorts of ways of understanding the God symbol, with many thinking of God as a sort of philosophical ideal, much as the ancient Greeks might have done.

Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.

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.

Much of Biblical theology, especially when it stresses the difference between Biblical modes of thought and Greek philosophical categories.

«A key question now is to know how the human of the 21st century can reactivate his animality and animalize himself anew when all Western thought since the Greeks tells him that he is human precisely because of this rupture with animality,» Lestel suggests, building on his critique of the very philosophical foundations of the ethological tradition.