God As Creator In Acts 17:24: An Historical-Exegetical Study (Africanus Monograph)

The Areopagus speech of Acts provides a helpful study of how Paul both engaged and confronted the contemporary culture of his day to present the message of Christianity to his hearers in Athens. How does Paul, as a Jew, contextualize the message for his audience of Stoic and Epicurean philosophers in Athens on the topic of God as Creator in Acts 17:24? Paul touches on a subject of contentious debate between Stoics and Epicureans when he identifies God as Creator. Stoics believed in a creating deity, something akin to Plato’s demiurge of the Timaeus. Epicureans ridiculed such an idea. By using the identification of God as Creator, Paul engages a common controversy between schools of philosophy.

• | Author: Jennifer Marie Creamer
• | Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• | Publication Date: Aug 25, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 196 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 1532615361
• | ISBN-13: 9781532615368