The Influence of Greek Ideas And Usages Upon the Christian Church
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C. Marc. 2. 11, 12. « Homil. L 13; 9. 19; 18. 2, 3. 230 VIII. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY. in " saving knoTrledgc :" " it is not enough for salvation to kno^Y that God is good ; wc must know also that He is just. "^ It is elaborated by both Clement of Alex- andria^ and Origen ; but in the latter it is linked closely with other problems, and his view will be best considered in relation to them.^ The Christian world in his time was settling down into a general acceptance of the belief that goodn...ess and justice co-existed, each limiting the other in the mind of God : the general effect of the con- troversy was to emj)hasize in Christianity the conception of God as a Moral Governor, administering the world by laws Avhich were at once beneficent and just. (ii. ) But this problem of the relation of goodness to justice passed, as the corresponding problem in Greek philosophy passed, into the problem of the relation of a good God to moral evil. The difficulties of the problem Iwere increased in its Christian form by the conception of moral evil as guilt rather than as misery, and by the emphasis which was laid on the idea of the Divine fore- knowledge.
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