Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography 1
Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography 1
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And in this way let me produce the fruit of Oreek erudition.
But I shall show throughout the whole of these miscellanies that evil has an evil nature, and can never produce anjrthing good, indicating that philosophy is in a sense a work of Divine Providence."^ He regarded his work as a book of commentaries on the true Gnostic philosophy, and is not afraid, he says, to make much use of Greek philosophy, which, so far from being, as some Christians thought, an invention of the Evil One, con- tain...s truth concealed within it like the kernel of a nut in its husk. He is an avowed eclectic, but an enemy of sophistry.
He thinks that the philosophers attained some germs of truth, 1 The width of his scope may best be seen in Strom, iv. 1, where he implies doubts whether he shall be able to finish the entire scheme, which included physics as weU as theology. * StronL 1 1.
282 LIVES OF THE FATHERS vii but he occupies a great part of the first book in the endeavour to prove that the Greeks were bat children in comparison with the Hebrews, seeing that they belong to a later epoch of history.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And in this way let me produce the fruit of Oreek erudition.
But I shall show throughout the whole of these miscellanies that evil has an evil nature, and can never produce anjrthing good, indicating that philosophy is in a sense a work of Divine Providence."^ He regarded his work as a book of commentaries on the true Gnostic philosophy, and is not afraid, he says, to make much use of Greek philosophy, which, so far from being, as some Christians thought, an invention of the Evil One, con- tain...s truth concealed within it like the kernel of a nut in its husk. He is an avowed eclectic, but an enemy of sophistry.
He thinks that the philosophers attained some germs of truth, 1 The width of his scope may best be seen in Strom, iv. 1, where he implies doubts whether he shall be able to finish the entire scheme, which included physics as weU as theology. * StronL 1 1.
282 LIVES OF THE FATHERS vii but he occupies a great part of the first book in the endeavour to prove that the Greeks were bat children in comparison with the Hebrews, seeing that they belong to a later epoch of history.
What to read after Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography 1?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Farrar Frederic William to read onlineMoreLess
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