What is fascinating to me is that this rather technical term originated ostensibly outside the tradition but fits squarely within the Christian perspective
Yes indeed. There have always been two different schools of thought within Christianity regarding pre- and non-Christian philosophical and religious traditions. I have read that there was a tradition within Orthodoxy that when Christ broke the door of Hades, Plato was the first among the dead to bow down to him; I've also heard it said that "God sent Plato to the Greeks as surely as he sent Isaiah to the Hebrews." Whatever its historical or mythical truth, this sentiment expresses the truth about the origins of Christian theology much more accurately than the other school of thought, the one that says "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"
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Date: 2022-09-06 01:23 am (UTC)Yes indeed. There have always been two different schools of thought within Christianity regarding pre- and non-Christian philosophical and religious traditions. I have read that there was a tradition within Orthodoxy that when Christ broke the door of Hades, Plato was the first among the dead to bow down to him; I've also heard it said that "God sent Plato to the Greeks as surely as he sent Isaiah to the Hebrews." Whatever its historical or mythical truth, this sentiment expresses the truth about the origins of Christian theology much more accurately than the other school of thought, the one that says "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"