Scripture and God in Christianity

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1 See George Leonard Prestige, God in Patristic Thought, SPCK, London,1952, 2f
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2 Quoted from Charles Bigg, The Christian Platonists of Alexandria, The 1886 Bamton Lectures, Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1968, 93
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3 Ibid, 92-3; also see John Ferguson, Clement of Alexandria, Twayne Publishers Inc., NY, 1974, 126ff; see
more details in Clement's Stromata Book 2, Chapter 16 How we are to explain the passages of Scripture which ascribe
to God human affections" in A. Roberts & J. Donaldson (eds.), The Ante-Nicene Fathers, W. B. Eerdmans,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1962, vol. 2: Fathers of the Second Century, 363-4
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4 Clement of Alexandria, in Prestige, Ibid, 55-
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5 R. A. Greer, Origen, Paulist Press, N.y., Ramsey, Toronto, 1979, 127
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6 Bigg, Ibid, 19
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7 Greer, Ibid, 12
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8 Ibid, 128; see more details in Origen, Contra Celsum VI:65 in H. Chawick, Origen, Contra Celsum, CUP,
Cambridge, 1965, 38
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9 See his "Confessions" in Whitney J. Oates, Basic Writings of St. Augustine, Random House, NY, 1948;
also R. W. Battenhouse, et al., A Companion to the Study of St. Augustine, NY, 195
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10 See V. Lossky, Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, NY, 197
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11 See E. L. Mascall, Existence and Analogy, Longmans Green, London, 194
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12 In no way I am denying later influences of Origen's theology and philosophy over Arainism, Athanasius,
Cappadocians, and many others throughout subsequent Christian history. He provided thought patterns to many traditional
theologians. But his Christology never won the official status.
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13 See Greer, Ibid, 3
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14 Northrop Frye, "The Religious Vision of William Blake", in Toward a New Christianity, edited by Thomas
J. J. Altizer, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., NY, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, 1967, 40
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15 I. R. Netton, Text and Trauma: An East-west Primer, Curzon Press, Richmond, 1996, 9
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16 Philip Scaff, History of the Christian Church, Won B. Eerdmans Comp. Grand Rapids, Michigan,
1976,vol. 2, 57
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17 Jochim Jeremias, New Testament Theology, Trans. by John Bowden, Charles Scribner's Sons, N.Y.,
1971,
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18 3: Robert M. Grant, The Formation of The New Testament, Harper & Row, N.Y., 1965,
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19 C. P. S. Clarke, Short History of The Christian Church, Longman, London, 1966, 2
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20 J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, Harper and Brothers, N.Y., 1958, 5
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21 See for biographical information Frances Young, From Nicaea to Chalcedon, SCM, London, 1983, ch. 2,
65-82, H. V. Campenhausen, The Fathers of the Greek Church, Trans. by Stanley Godman, Pantheon, N.Y., 1955,
67-79 and also G.L. Prestige, Fathers and Heretics, N.Y., 1940, ch. i
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22 P. Scaff and Henry Wace (Eds.), The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Grand Rapids, Mich. 1978, vol.4,
551-52 also see A. Harnack, History of Dogma, Trans. by Neil Buchanan, Dover Publications, N.Y.,1961, vol:3, 19
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23 See Encyclopedia of Religion, Macmillan, N.Y., vol 2 , 18
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24 A. Souter, Text and Canon of the New Testament, Scribners', 1925, 21
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25 R. Laird Harris, Inspiration and Canonicity of the Bible, Zondervan, Mich. 5th ed., 1973, 20
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26 Scaff, History of the Christian Church, 57
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27 Harris, Ibid, 234-3
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28 H.T. Fowler, The History and Literature of the New Testament, Macmillan, N.Y., 1934, 42
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29 Norman L. Geisler and William E. Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible, Moody Press, Chicago,
1969, 17
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