God as Creator in Acts 17:24: An Historical-Exegetical Study

By Jennifer Marie Creamer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532615388
• ISBN13: 9781532615382
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"