Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition
Henry Chadwick
Abstract
The historian of Western culture cannot travel far without discovering that the roots of many 20th-century questions lie in the ancient dialogue between the early Christians and culture of the old Classical world. This book takes three Christian thinkers: Justin, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, and shows what the debate looked like from the Christian side. It draws on the pagan critics of the Church to illustrate the case the Christians had to answer. The examination of the Christian synthesis illustrates the extent to which penetrating criticism of the Classical tradition was combined with ... More
Keywords: early Christian thought, classical tradition, Western culture, Christian thinkers, Justin, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, pagan, Church, humanism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1984 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198266730 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198266730.001.0001 |
