Christianity and classical culture: the metamorphosis of natural theology in the Christian encounter with Hellenism / Jaroslav Pelikan

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 368 pages. Contents: pt. 1. Natural theology as apologetics. Classical culture and Christian theology; Natural theology as apologetics; The language of negation; God and the ways of knowing; The many and the one; The universe as cosmos; Space, time, and deity; The image of god; The source of all good; From Tyche to Telos. -- pt. 2. Natural theology as presupposition. Christian theology and classical culture; Natural theology as presupposition; The lexicon of transcendence; Faith as the fulfillment of reason; The one and the three; Cosmos as contingent creation; The economy of salvation; The metamorphosis of human nature; The worship offered by rational creatures; The life of the aeon to come. -- Glossary of Greek technical terms from sources ancient and modern. Subjects: Macrina the Younger, Saint approximately 330-379 or 380. Basil Saint, Bishop of Caesarea ca. 329-379.Gregory of Nazianzus, Saint. Natural theology History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600.Cappadocian Fathers.Christianity and culture History Early church, ca. 30-600. Civilization, Classical.