The Basis of Early Christian Theism

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A scholarly study traces how early Christian writers engaged arguments for the existence of God, contrasting classical Greek and Roman proofs with the perspectives of the Church Fathers. It surveys ontological, cosmological, teleological, and common-consent varieties of theistic reasoning, showing that patristic authors preferred practical, concrete forms suited to persuasion and pastoral needs while recognizing limits to purely speculative demonstration. The work examines how revelation, scriptural commitments, and inherited philosophical vocabularies interacted in patristic theology, and it concludes by outlining a more eclectic theism that synthesizes diverse arguments and methodological cautions.

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[92] History of Philosophy, Vol. I, § 4.

[93] Burnet: Early Greek Philosophy, p. 25.

[94] Stromata, II, iv.

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The writer was born April 24, 1869, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended the Ann Arbor Public Schools and the Ann Arbor High School. In 1892 he received the degree of A. B. from the University of Michigan. In 1895 he graduated from the General Theological Seminary, New York, and was awarded the degree of B. D., which was formally conferred in accordance with the rules of the Seminary one year later. In 1896, he received the degree of A. M. from the University of Michigan. He pursued studies in Philosophy at Harvard University during the first term of the year 1896-7, and at Columbia University from February, 1897, to February, 1898. He has been the post-graduate scholar of the Church University Board of Regents from July, 1895, to the present time.