| 046 | Do the gospel writers accept all of the ideas of Greek philosophy? |
| 046 | Insofar as Mark may have adopted Homer’s literary “circles” for his gospel, this in itself would be a statement that he was not prepared to ‘blindly’ accept all of Plato’s opinions. Plato (the dominant Greek philosopher) did not like Homer and he opposed democracy. | c/f Creighton University, “Comments on Plato’s Apology,” Critical and Historical Introduction to Philosophy (Nebraska: Creighton University) |