Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages upon the Christian Church, The
Edwin Hatch
Number of quotes: 26
Book ID: 341 Page: 1
Section: 4A
It is impossible for any one, whether he be a student of history or no, to fail to notice a difference of both form and content between the Sermon on the Mount and the Nicene Creed.Dupe of 7734
Quote ID: 7872
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 341 Page: 1
Section: 4A
The one belongs to a world of Syrian peasants, the other to a world of Greek philosophers.Dupe of 7734
Quote ID: 7873
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 341 Page: 1/2
Section: 4A
…the question why an ethical sermon stood in the forefront of the teaching of Jesus Christ, and a metaphysical creed in the forefront of the Christianity of the fourth century, is a problem which claims investigation.It claims investigation, but it has not yet been investigated.
Quote ID: 7874
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 341 Page: 5
Section: 4A
…the Nicene Creed rather than the Sermon on the Mount has formed the dominant element in Aryan Christianity.
Quote ID: 7875
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 341 Page: 10
Section: 1A
1. The one is the tendency to overrate the value of the evidence that has survived.
Quote ID: 7876
Time Periods: 12
Book ID: 341 Page: 10
Section: 1A
2. The other is the tendency to under-estimate the importance of the opinions that have disappeared from sight, or which we know only in the form and to the extent of their quotation by their opponents.
Quote ID: 7877
Time Periods: 12
Book ID: 341 Page: 21/22
Section: 4B
The difficulty arises from our overlooking the entirely different aspect under which religion presented itself to a Roman mind. It was a matter which lay, not between the soul and God, but between the individual and the state. Conscience had no place in it. Worship was an ancestral usage which the state sanctioned and enforced. It was one of the ordinary duties of life.{1} The neglect of it, and still more the disavowal of it, was a crime. An emperor might pity the offender for his obstinacy, but he must necessarily either compel him to obey or punish him for disobedience.
Quote ID: 7878
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 341 Page: 32
Section: 4A
…Philosophy. It was the highest element in the education of the average Greek of the period.
Quote ID: 7880
Time Periods: 0
Book ID: 341 Page: 51/52
Section: 4B
The verses of Homer were not simply the utterances of a particular person with a particular meaning for a particular time. They had a universal validity. They were the voice of an undying wisdom. They were the Bible of the Greek races.{1}
Quote ID: 7881
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 341 Page: 69
Section: 4A
Just as the Greek philosophers had found their philosophy in Homer, so Christian writers found in him Christian theology.
Quote ID: 7882
Time Periods: 24
Book ID: 341 Page: 124
Section: 4A
The earliest forms of Christianity were not only outside the sphere of Greek philosophy, but they also appealed, on the one hand, mainly to the classes which philosophy did not reach, and, on the other hand, to a standard which philosophy did not recognize.
Quote ID: 7883
Time Periods: 12
Book ID: 341 Page: 125
Section: 4A
It is therefore the more remarkable that within a century and a half after Christianity and philosophy first came into close contact, the ideas and methods of philosophy had flowed in such mass into Christianity, and filled so large a place in it, as to have made it no less a philosophy than a religion.
Quote ID: 7884
Time Periods: 12
Book ID: 341 Page: 132
Section: 1A
The old-fashioned Christians, who would admit of no compromise, and maintained the old usages unchanged, were gradually detached as Ebionites, or Nazarӕans. The old orthodoxy became a new heresy.
Quote ID: 7885
Time Periods: 234
Book ID: 341 Page: 133
Section: 1A,4B
It was in reality a victory in which the victors were the vanquished. There was so large an absorption by the original communities of the principles of their opponents as to destroy the main reason for a separate existence.
Quote ID: 7886
Time Periods: 234
Book ID: 341 Page: 134/135/136/137
Section: 3A2
When, through the kinship of ideas, Christianity had been absorbed by the educated classes, the habit of mind which had preceded it remained and dominated. It showed itself mainly in three way:1. The first of these was the tendency to define.
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2. The second manifestation of the philosophical habit of mind was the tendency to speculate.
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…The holding of approved opinions was elevated to a position at first co-ordinate with, and at last superior to, trust in God and the effort to live a holy life.
Quote ID: 7887
Time Periods: 234
Book ID: 341 Page: 295
Section: 1A,2A1
These were the simple elements of early Christian baptism. When it emerges after a period of obscurity—like a river which flows under the sand—the enormous changes of later times have already begun.
Quote ID: 7890
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 341 Page: 305/306
Section: 2A5
It seems fair to infer that, since there were great changes in the ritual of the sacraments, and since the new elements of these changes were identical with elements that already existed in cognate and largely diffused forms of worship, the one should be due to the other.This inference is strengthened when we find that the Christian communities which were nearest in form and spirit to the Hellenic culture, were the first in which these elements appear.
Quote ID: 7892
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 341 Page: 309
Section: 1A
In the splendid ceremonial of Eastern and Western worship, in the blaze of lights, in the separation of the central point of the rite from common view, in the procession of torch-bearers chanting their sacred hymns—there is the survival, and in some cases the galvanized survival, of what I cannot find it in my heart to call a pagan ceremonial; because though it was the expression of a less enlightened faith, yet it was offered to God from a heart that was not less earnest in its search for God and in its effort after holiness than our own.PJ: Xns of the early centuries felt the same way, and welcomed those demons into their hearts.
Quote ID: 7894
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 341 Page: 320
Section: 2D3B
The spirit of prophecy had only gradually passed away.
Quote ID: 7895
Time Periods: 234
Book ID: 341 Page: 323
Section: 4A
There was a recognized school—on the type of the existing philosophical schools—for the study of philosophical Christianity. Its first great teacher was Clement. He was the first to construct a large philosophy of Christian doctrine, with a recognition of the conventional limits, but by the help and in the domain of Greek thought. But he is of less importance than his great disciple Origen.
Quote ID: 7896
Time Periods: 123
Book ID: 341 Page: 338/339
Section: 3A4C
…this very transformation of the idea of a particular religion into that of a universal religion—this conception of an all-embracing human society, naturally, if unconsciously, carried with it a relaxation of the bonds of discipline. The very earnestness which led men to preach the Gospel and to hasten the Kingdom, led them also to gather into the net fish of every kind. There was always a test, but the rigour of the test was softened. The old Adam asserted itself.
Quote ID: 7898
Time Periods: 456
Book ID: 341 Page: 339
Section: 2D3A
It was against this whole tendency that Montanism was a rebellion—not only against the officialism of Christianity, but also against its worldliness.{1}
Quote ID: 7899
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 341 Page: 350
Section: 1A
I venture to claim to have shown that a large part of what are sometimes called Christian doctrines, and many usages which have prevailed and continue to prevail in the Christian Church, are in reality Greek theories and Greek usages changed in form and colour by the influence of primitive Christianity, but in their essence Greek still.
Quote ID: 7900
Time Periods: 234
Book ID: 341 Page: 350
Section: 1A
It is an argument for the divine life of Christianity that it has been able to assimilate so much that was at first alien to it.PJ: He approves of the Synthesis.
Quote ID: 7901
Time Periods: 234
Book ID: 341 Page: 351
Section: 1A
It is possible to urge, on the other hand, that the tree of life, which was planted by the hand of God Himself in the soil of human society, was intended from the first to grow by assimilating to itself whatever elements it found there. It is possible to maintain that Christianity was intended to be a development….PJ: He approves of the Synthesis.
Quote ID: 7902
Time Periods: 234
Book ID: 341 Page: 353
Section: 1A
For though you may believe that I am but a dreamer of dreams, I seem to see, though it be on the far horizon—the horizon beyond the fields which either we or our children will tread—a Christianity which is not new but old, which is not old, but new….PJ: He approves of the Synthesis continuing. Sounds like the Trinity.
Quote ID: 7903
Time Periods: 247
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