 | Charles Augustus Briggs - 1916 - 240 pages
...Athens and one another to those who have been comrades there.' Many years after, Gregory wrote : ' I take it as admitted by men of sense, that the first...education ; and not only this our more noble form of it, ... but even that external culture, which many Christians ill-judgingly abhor, as treacherous and dangerous,... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers - 1986 - 538 pages
...Gregory of Nazianzus (329-389) revealed how liberal the Christian position could be, when he wrote: I take it as admitted by men of sense, that the first...objects of our contemplation: but even that external [ie, pagan] culture which many Christians ill-judgingly abhor, as treacherous and dangerous, and keeping... | |
 | Gilbert Meilaender, William Werpehowski - 2005 - 557 pages
...mixed meaning as both education in the strict sense and as culture when he writes: I take it to be admitted by men of sense, that the first of our advantages...and holds to salvation and beauty in the objects of contemplation; but even that external culture which many Christians ill-judgingly abhor, as treacherous... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 2007 - 569 pages
...upon grounds which no one, I think, will consider superfluous, or beyond the scope of my oration. ii. I take it as admitted by men of sense, that the first...abhor, as treacherous and dangerous, and keeping us afer from God. For as we ought not to neglect the heavens, and earth, and air, and all such things,... | |
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I take it as admitted by men of sense, that the first of our advantages is education; and not only this our more noble form of it, which disregards rhetorical ornaments and glory, and holds to salvation, and beauty in the objects of our contemplation:... 