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The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian church

Chapter 1: THE HIBBERT LECTURES 1888
By Edwin Hatch
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A scholarly account of how Hellenic thought, language, and social practices shaped the development of early Christian belief, worship, and organization. It follows the transition from original ethical teaching to formulated creeds and institutional structures, showing how Greek philosophical categories, technical vocabulary, and urban administrative models influenced theology, liturgy, scriptural interpretation, and church polity. The argument highlights the cultural assumptions that redirected doctrinal emphasis, furnished tools for theological argumentation, and provided patterns of authority and ceremonial life that became embedded in the church’s evolving identity.

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Title: The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian church

Author: Edwin Hatch

Editor: A. M. Fairbairn

Release date: November 29, 2023 [eBook #72255]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Williams and Norgate, 1914

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THE HIBBERT LECTURES
1888

The Hibbert Trustees cannot add this volume to their series without a few lines of grateful acknowledgment. It is impossible to forget either the courteous readiness with which the accomplished author undertook the task originally, or the admirable qualities he brought to it. When he died without completing the MS. for the press, the anxiety of the Trustees was at once relieved by the kind effort of his family to obtain adequate assistance. The public will learn from the Preface how much had to be done, and will join the Trustees in grateful appreciation of the services of the gentlemen who responded to the occasion. That Dr. Hatch’s friend, Dr. Fairbairn, consented to edit the volume, with the valuable aid of Mr. Bartlet and Professor Sanday, was an ample pledge that the want would be most efficiently met. To those gentlemen the Trustees are greatly indebted for the learned and earnest care with which the laborious revision was made.

THE HIBBERT LECTURES, 1888.

THE
INFLUENCE OF GREEK IDEAS
AND USAGES
UPON THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

BY THE LATE
EDWIN HATCH, D.D.
READER IN ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

EDITED BY
A. M. FAIRBAIRN, D.D.
LATE PRINCIPAL OF MANSFIELD COLLEGE, OXFORD.

WILLIAMS AND NORGATE,
14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.
1914.

Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E.,
AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.