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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 November 2009
      01 April 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511598029
      9780521430784
      9780521022323
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511598029
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 356 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.461kg, 356 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, History, Religion, European Studies, European History 450-1000, Theology
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    Area Studies, History, Religion, European Studies, European History 450-1000, Theology
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    There are special times of movement in the history of ideas, and one such time - as the author of this study shows - was the second half of the second century, when Christian thought showed fresh vigour. By concentrating on five seminal Christian thinkers of the second century (Justin, Athenegoras, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian), Eric Osborn illustrates how it was that Christianity made monotheism axiomatic to its central doctrinal claims while adapting, too, to the peculiar circumstances in which it developed. The stimulus for new thought came from the objections of the state, philosophers, Jews, Gnostics, and Marcion, who in different ways denied the Christian claim to faith in one God. In response, Christian thinkers argued for one God who was the first principle of being, goodness, and truth. In its presentation of the lively beginning which brought Christianity and classical thought together, this book casts light on the growth of the European intellectual tradition.

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