(DOWNLOAD) "God as Creator in Acts 17:24" by Jennifer Marie Creamer ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: God as Creator in Acts 17:24
- Author : Jennifer Marie Creamer
- Release Date : January 25, 2017
- Genre: Bible Studies,Books,Religion & Spirituality,Christianity,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1417 KB
Description
The Areopagus speech of Acts provides a helpful study of how Paul both engaged and confronted the contemporary culture of his day to present the message of Christianity to his hearers in Athens. How does Paul, as a Jew, contextualize the message for his audience of Stoic and Epicurean philosophers in Athens on the topic of God as Creator in Acts 17:24? Paul touches on a subject of contentious debate between Stoics and Epicureans when he identifies God as Creator. Stoics believed in a creating deity, something akin to Plato's demiurge of the Timaeus. Epicureans ridiculed such an idea. By using the identification of God as Creator, Paul engages a common controversy between schools of philosophy.
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