The Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide to Graeco-Roman Religions (Studies of the New Testament and Its World) by Hans Josef Klauck

Author:Hans Josef Klauck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2007-10-07T05:34:00+00:00

At a later date, the Church fathers drew above all on the Bible in their polemic against astrology (cf. Riedinger). The very fact that they continually had to fight a defensive battle is itself evidence of the abiding seductive power of their adversary. Adolf Harnack's verdict is surely too optimistic - or else, putting it differently, he shows only one side of the matter - when he cheerfully writes: `One who is capable of assessing correctly what a power astrology represented in the imperial period - when the natural sciences as a whole were in decline - and how it succeeded in clothing itself in the garment of science, how it penetrated everywhere and suited the passive and weary mood of the period, will be able to appreciate the resistance put up by the Church (gnosticism was pretty helpless here too). Here we must say that the Church did something tremendous!,7

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