Sentences with phrase «greek philosophy books»

The part of that story that is this story in a messy house at midnight with a loud clock ticking on the wall is what the Greek philosophy books said on that guy's shelf: That more than half a century before the Gospel of John was ever written, more than 500 years before God pulled on flesh and stretched out on straw, Heraclitus was the first Greek philosopher who used that word: Logos.

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In his book, A New Kind of Christianity, Brian McLaren suggests that our Christianity today, the six line narrative that we hold so dear, is the result of the influences of the Greek philosophy and Romans Empirical thinking and not the narrative of the Bible.

An especially noteworthy and brilliant example of how this refusal can bear fruit is found in Nussbaum's reading of Plato's Symposium in her first book, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986).

One of the important truths which this very useful book underlines is the simple fact that as neither the Church nor the doctrine of the Church came to an abrupt end with the death of the last apostle and the conclusion of the New Testament, Greek itself well outlived the apostolic period and continued to enrich the Church through history, philosophy, theology, hymns and sermons for a long time after 100AD.

He's written books on friendship, love, wellbeing, belief, spirituality, science and ancient Greek philosophy.