| Early Christianity and Greek Paidea (Revised) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Jaeger, Werner (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674220528 ISBN-13: 9780674220522 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1985 Annotation: This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Ancient - Greece - Music | Religious - Christian |
| Dewey: 270.1 |
| LCCN: 85008509 |
| Series: Belknap Press |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.52" W x 8.26" (0.44 lbs) 162 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized. Werner Jaeger shows that without the large postclassical expansion of Greek culture the rise of a Christian world religion would have been impossible. He explains why the Hellenization of Christianity was necessary in apostolic and postapostalic times; points out similarities between Greek philosophy and Christian belief; discuss such key figures as Clement, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa; and touches on the controversies that led to the ultimate complex synthesis of Greek and Christian thought. |