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To: qua; Agrarian; kosta50
The point I'm making is that by forcing Christian theology into the mold of Greek categories many substantial errors occured.

How do you know that you are not misreading what the early church Fathers did? How do you know that they weren't molding Greek philosophical language to conform to Christian teaching? If a Christian teacher wanted to communicate to and convert an intelligent Hellenistic philosopher to Christianity, what better way than to frame the argument in the language that he spoke and wrote?

For example, the word hypostasis means substance in Greek philosophy. But when the Christians writers borrowed this word, they redefined it to mean Person. That is a profound change. To understand this requires a shift in perspective.

4,304 posted on 04/03/2006 12:29:55 AM PDT by stripes1776
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