Sentences with phrase «divine paideia»
There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»
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The understanding of Plato that early Christians inherited assumed that the goal and deep foundation of paideia was knowledge of the divine.
In his view pagan paideia was «the gradual fulfillment of the divine providence,» [13] culminating in the paideia which was Christianity.
Moreover, increasingly it was stressed that divine assistance is needed for the conversion of soul that is required for knowledge of the Good; not even the «slow vegetable growth» fostered by paideia could be counted on to produce automatically the necessary turning of the soul.