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@article{1349683,
author = {Franek, Juraj},
article_location = {Brno},
article_number = {1},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/GLB2016-1-3},
keywords = {Socrates; reception; early Christian literature; epistemic justification; apologetics; miracles; morality; divine inspiration},
language = {eng},
issn = {1803-7402},
journal = {Graeco-Latina Brunensia},
title = {Omnibus Omnia : The Reception of Socrates in Ante-Nicene Christian Literature},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/135487},
volume = {21},
year = {2016}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1349683
AU - Franek, Juraj
PY - 2016
TI - Omnibus Omnia : The Reception of Socrates in Ante-Nicene Christian Literature
JF - Graeco-Latina Brunensia
VL - 21
IS - 1
SP - 31-58
EP - 31-58
PB - Masarykova univerzita
SN - 18037402
KW - Socrates
KW - reception
KW - early Christian literature
KW - epistemic justification
KW - apologetics
KW - miracles
KW - morality
KW - divine inspiration
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/135487
L2 - http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/135487
N2 - The figure of Socrates features prominently in the works of earliest Christian authors and their attempts to negotiate a viable relation between pagan intellectual tradition and the exigencies of a newly founded religion. The analysis of all relevant ante-Nicene Greek and Latin texts shows that early Christian writers reconstruct “Socrates” with a striking degree of interpretative freedom. Although it is impossible to establish a unified perspective on Socrates in these texts – let alone a positive one, as many previous commentators thought –, the interpretations of the Athenian sage are not entirely haphazard. I argue that they are heavily constrained by apologetic aims of early Christian authors and closely connected to epistemic justification of faith by means of miracles, superior moral behaviour, divine inspiration and prophecy, and, finally, the emphasis that is placed on the limitations of human, all too human, wisdom.
ER -
FRANEK, Juraj. Omnibus Omnia : The Reception of Socrates in Ante-Nicene Christian Literature. \textit{Graeco-Latina Brunensia}. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, vol.~21, No~1, p.~31-58. ISSN~1803-7402. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/GLB2016-1-3.
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