HoP 109 - Spreading the Word - the Latin Church Fathers
December 30th, 2012
Tertullian, Lactantius, Jerome and Ambrose use and abuse Hellenic philosophy.
Tertullian, Lactantius, Jerome and Ambrose use and abuse Hellenic philosophy.
George Boys-Stones joins Peter to discuss philosophy in the Bible and the Greek Fathers.
Christian ascetics like Antony, Macrina and Evagrius create a new ethical ideal by pushing the human capacity for self-control to its limits.
The early Byzantine thinker Maximus uses Aristotle to defend the orthodox view of Christ's two natures
A mysterious author calling himself Dionysius fuses Neoplatonism with Christianity