Paul and the Athens Epicureans

Between Polytheisms, Atheisms and Monotheisms

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4846597
AutoresRenée Koch Piettre (0000-0002-6827-8485, École Pratique des Hautes Études, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen52
Número1
Páginas47-60
Fecha de publicación2005-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiogenes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0392192105050602
OpenAlexW1969327001
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas15

The New Testament episode of Paul's encounter with the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers of Athens, in chapter 17 of the Acts of the Apostles (vv. 16-34), illuminates the relationship between early Christianity and its intellectual and religious environment in the Roman empire. Here Paul the Apostle is in fact forced to explain his message in terms he attempts to make comprehensible for an audience of educated Athenians, in accordance with what he thinks he knows about that audience. At least that is how Luke, the writer of the Acts, tries to describe the episode, at which he was apparently not himself present

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