THEO 20205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Early Christianity
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4-5 page essay, double spaced pick one of the four quesions. Should bring together the main things that we have talked about and read about. On the soul and the resurrecion by gregory of nyssa. Resurrecion of the body seemed strange to philosophers, not appealing at all because they wanted to separate the soul from the body. Resurrecion seemed to be an alternaive to immortality of the soul - early chrisians wanted. Resurrecion of the dead and the body, pagans wanted immortality of the soul - new testament hardly menions reincarnaion of the soul. Early chrisians thought that when we die we die, but we will be brought back again in the resurrecion, and there is nothing in between. ---> seems to be that the purpose of this work is to make the chrisian noion of resurrecion agreeable to people who were greek and were learned in philosophy and logic.
