The Gospel of Hellas: The Mission of Ancient Greece and The Advent of Christ

The Gospel of Hellas: The Mission of Ancient Greece and The Advent of Christ image
ISBN-10:

0000001139

ISBN-13:

9780000001139

Author(s): Friedrich Hiebel
Released: Jan 01, 1948
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Format: Paperback, 290 pages
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"To be reminded in a utilitarian, materialistic age that the ideals of the Greek mind can quicken culture, even today, is refreshing to heart and soul." –R. M. Querido The Christian civilization of the Western would is built on two colums: the heritages of the Old Testament and that of Hellas. This has been know since the days Clement of Alexandria, the found of the first Christian philosophy in the second century A.D., who was by descent a Greek and by faith a Christian. Clement appraised the dialectic of Plato and the metaphysics of Aristotle to be equally significant with the Genesis of Moses and the books of the prophets. In placing the message of the Greeks on the same level as the revelation of the Old Testament, he laid the cornerstone for building a true hhistory of the mission of Hellas. In fact, it is an integral part of the task of this book to show that besides the events in the lives of the Hebrews there was nothing that more immediately prepared humanity for the coming of Christ than what lived in the spirit of Hellas. Hence, the story of the heathen heritage becomes the Gospel of Hellas.












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