Do the gospels contain a critique of Greek philosophy?



076 Some of the Old Testament passages present God in humanlike terms. Did early theologians such as Origin reinterpret these and if so how?


076 Origin (who was steeped in Greek learning) demonstrated that the passages in the gospels that appeared to present God in anthropological terms did in fact mean that God was incorporeal (without a body). Christine Helmer, ed., Biblical Interpretation: History, Context, and Reality (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009), 10-11.


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