Bringing Into Captivity Every Thought: Capita Selecta in the History of Christian Evaluations of Non-Christian Philosophy

by Gerben Groenewoud and Jacob Klapwijk

What Clement of Alexandria, Calvin of Geneva and Gutierrez of Peru, and all the other thinkers discussed in this book have in common is at least this: they all bear witness to their struggle with the relation between Christian faith and non-Christian thought. This relation is the theme of the collection of essays presented here by way of case studies. The struggle of the early church with the philosophy of the late antiquity was one of life and death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819178284
• ISBN13: 9780819178282
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"