Gospel message and Hellenistic culture

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Preparation for the gospel. Missionary literature ; The wisdom of the Gentiles ; Homer in the fathers of the church ; Plato in Christian middle Platonism ; Aristotle and Christian apologetic -- Expounding the faith. The apostolic tradition ; The content of the catechesis -- The proof of the gospel. Justin and the Old Testament ; Exegesis in Irenaeus and Melito ; Clement of Alexandria as exegete ; Hippolytus and the extension of typology ; Origen's exegetical method ; Typology and rhetoric in Methodius -- Theological problems. Philosophy and theology ; The transcendence of God ; The person of the word ; Problems of anthropology ; Demonology -- Christian gnosis. Gnosis in Clement of Alexandria ; Gnosis in Origen.