God as Creator in Acts 17:24

Download or read book God as Creator in Acts 17:24 written by Jennifer Marie Creamer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Areopagus speech of Acts provides a helpful study of how Paul both engaged and confronted the contemporary culture of his day to present the message of Christianity to his hearers in Athens. How does Paul, as a Jew, contextualize the message for his audience of Stoic and Epicurean philosophers in Athens on the topic of God as Creator in Acts 17:24? Paul touches on a subject of contentious debate between Stoics and Epicureans when he identifies God as Creator. Stoics believed in a creating deity, something akin to Plato's demiurge of the Timaeus. Epicureans ridiculed such an idea. By using the identification of God as Creator, Paul engages a common controversy between schools of philosophy.