Project Gutenberg 2008-01-16 Public domain in the USA. 93 Cole, Lawrence Thomas 1869 The Basis of Early Christian Theism Reading ease score: 48.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. Produced by Fritz Ohrenschall, Colin Bell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Basis of Early Christian Theism" by Lawrence Thomas Cole is a scholarly treatise written in the late 19th century. This work explores the development and significance of theistic arguments during the early Christian era, particularly how they interacted with Greek philosophical thought. The book is of a philosophical and theological nature, analyzing the essential beliefs about God during the formative years of Christianity and the intellectual climate that surrounded these beliefs. Cole's examination delves into how early Christian thinkers integrated and responded to existing Greek and Roman theistic arguments while establishing a distinct Christian framework. He identifies key figures from both the Greek philosophical tradition and early church fathers, discussing their contributions to theism and the nature of God. The text highlights the shift from abstract philosophical arguments to a more personal and revealed understanding of God through Christ, emphasizing the practical implications of faith over purely rational debate. Through this lens, Cole articulates the unique character of early Christian thought and its reliance on revelation in contrast to the fragmented speculative reasoning of its philosophical predecessors. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Theism B Text Browsing: History - Religious Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 155445 155446 2024-10-10T12:09:41.523323 2023-09-11T04:32:53.604785 text/html text/html 156638 2008-01-16T12:08:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 51853 2008-01-16T12:08:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 134458 2024-10-10T12:09:48.776315 application/epub+zip 135106 2024-10-10T12:09:45.121346 application/epub+zip 115710 2024-10-10T12:09:43.733325 application/epub+zip 301040 2024-10-10T12:09:51.199287 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 286082 2024-10-10T12:09:47.864320 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 256042 2022-09-11T09:29:28.350177 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 121738 2024-10-10T12:09:40.997343 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 122008 2008-01-16T12:08:38 text/plain; charset=utf-8 45225 2008-01-16T12:08:58 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 121598 2008-01-16T12:08:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 44789 2008-01-16T12:08:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 121613 2008-01-16T12:08:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 44694 2008-01-16T12:08:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22728 2024-10-10T12:09:51.327312 application/rdf+xml 17373 2024-10-10T12:09:44.292305 image/jpeg 4005 2024-10-10T12:09:44.016336 image/jpeg 130663 2024-10-10T12:09:41.535347 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog