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PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Mysteries from the East
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Mysteries from the East
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter Four A COCK FOR ASCLEPIUS: ‘RELIGION’ AND ‘CULTURE’ IN PAUL’S WORLD 2. Religion and Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean World of Paul’s Day (II) The Religious World of Ancient Greece The word ‘Greece’ itself needs some definition – or rather, a warning about the comparat
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Real Beginning: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Real Beginning: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter Three ATHENE AND HER OWL: THE WISDOM OF THE GREEKS 2. The Shape and Content of First-Century Philosophy (ii) The Real Beginning: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle First, then, the four great schools. All western philosophy traces itself back to Plato, and thereby to Socrates.
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Conclusion
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Conclusion
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL Conclusion The worldview of a first-century Pharisee has thus come into focus. Living somewhere on the spectrum between the extreme and possibly violent zeal of the ardent Shammaite and the extreme an
Meeting God in Paul - 1c Paul the man
Meeting God in Paul - 1c Paul the man
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Paul the man But what of Paul himself? What kind of a person was he? So far we’ve been sketching out the whole environment, leaving in the middle of it all a human-sized shadow. What kind of man? What age? What do we know of his personal life?…
Paul and the Faithfulness of God - Resistance to Empire: the Jews
Paul and the Faithfulness of God - Resistance to Empire: the Jews
by SPCK - N T Wright
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED: ROME AND THE CHALLENGE OF EMPIRE 5. Resistance to Empire: the Jews Resistance to Roman rule was natural and widespread, from western Spain to far-off Parthia.299 Some attempts at resistance were startlingly successful, like the German destruction of three le
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Introduction
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter Three ATHENE AND HER OWL: THE WISDOM OF THE GREEKS Introduction Perhaps it was the questions Homer raised and never answered: why the vain Olympians should interfere in Agamemnon’s war; or how air, water, earth and fire combine into a kosmos; how we can be ‘free’; what ma
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