4b Apologetics to the Greeks: Paul’s Athens Sermon (Acts 17)

Apologetics to the Greeks: Paul’s Athens Sermon (Acts 17)

One of the most important audiences envisaged by New Testament writers for proclamation of the gospel is “the Greeks.” In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, “Greeks” are set alongside “Jews” as a defining group of considerable importance (1 Cor. 1:22). It is quite clear that sections of the Acts of the Apostles show at least some degree of familiarity and affinity with Hellenistic rhetoric, as well as the beliefs and practices of the classical period…