Hellenistic ways of deliverance and the making of the Christian synthesis

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FOREWORD vu I.THE HELLENISTIC WORLD 7 II.FIRST OR GREEK HELLENISM z3 III. THE EPICUREAN RETREAT INTO THE GARDEN 22 IV. STOIC PEACE IN THE MIDST OF BATTLE 31 V.THE SKEPTICAL DEFENSE AGAINST THINKING 5^ VI.THE FORTUNES OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN ROME 80 VII.THE REVIVAL OF RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES 700 VIII.THE INTELLIGIBLE UNIVERSE OF PLOTINOS 777 IX.THE MAKING OF THE CHRISTIAN SYNTHESIS 135 X.THE GOSPEL OF JESUS AND THE MYSTERY CULT OF PAUL I4S XI.GNOSTICS, MORAL CHRISTIANS, AND APOLOGISTS 75# XII.THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF THE GREEK FATHERS1. CLEMENT, ORIGEN, AND ATHANASIUS 7^5 XIII. the latin church: tertullian and arnobius 184 XIV. THE MANIFOLD EXPERIENCE OF AUGUSTINE 188 XV. THE AUGUSTINIAN THEORY OF BEING AND KNOWLEDGE 204 XVI. THE AUGUSTINIAN DOCTRINE OF SIN AND SALVATION 2Ij. XVII. THE AUGUSTINIAN DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH 22