GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL ELEMENTS IN SOME JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN PRAYERS
GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL ELEMENTS IN SOME JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN PRAYERS

Summary/Abstract: In book 7 of the Apostolic Constitutions (from late-fourth century Antioch) one finds a remarkable set of six originally Jewish prayers that have undergone Christian editing. In spite of all their biblical terminology and flavour, the composer of these prayers has adopted quite a number of ideas and concepts that have their origin in the Greek philosophical tradition. In the present article several of these ideas are discussed in order to show how biblical faith is here synthesized with Greek philosophy.

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