Judaeo-Christian Ideas of God compared to Greek Influences

Created by: Tom Kydd-Coutts
Created on: 17-04-14 13:04

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Judaeo-Christian Influences compared to Greek Philosophy
- New Testament
  - Hellenistic Context
    - Introduces Greek Philosophy
  - Offers parallels between:
    - Prime Mover
      - Doesn't interact, unaware, simply attracts all around Himself to result in causal change
    - Demiurge
      - Impersonal and non-interactive entity that does not have the capacity to love
    - Judaeo-Christian God
      - Interpersonal and interactive: forms relationships between Himself and His creation
      - Responsive to human behaviour
- Differences on creator
  - Greek Philosophy
    - Solving mystery of divine
      - Plato and Aristotle's Prime Mover and Demiurge offer explanations for creation
    - Well reasoned, deducted and induced forms of writing
      - Uses non-cognitive language: metaphors and analogies are used instead
  - Judeao-Christian Philosophy
    - Premise of faith- abiding trust in God's existence
    - The Bible
      - Trust in the stories of it
      - Not a philosophical outlook but a culmination of events shared by people of the same faith
      - Uses non-cognitive language: metaphors and analogies are used instead
  - Offers parallels between:
    - Prime Mover
      - Doesn't interact, unaware, simply attracts all around Himself to result in causal change
    - Demiurge
      - Impersonal and non-interactive entity that does not have the capacity to love
    - Judaeo-Christian God
      - Interpersonal and interactive: forms relationships between Himself and His creation
      - Responsive to human behaviour
Well reasoned, deducted and induced forms of writing

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