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Contra Zwingli -
“Plato has also drunk at this heavenly spring. And if the two Catos, Scipio, and Camillus, had not been truly religious, could they have been so high-minded?”
There is a certain known Biblioblogger out there who, following in the way of Clement of Alexandria, believes that Christianity and Platonism can be mixed. I’m not going to say he’s wrong, but when he is burning in the fires of hell, I’ll let Abraham tell him he was wrong.
Just saying…
Tim Gombis has a three part series up on spirituality and humanity, which sorta involves Plato. He begins by writing,
For many Christian people, spirituality is set against our humanity.
Okay, jokes aside about Plato – these articles are worth reading.
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- God Loves the Gates of Zion More: Say No to Plato (part 5) (missoulaurc.wordpress.com)
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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[...] On Clement of Alexandria: Platonist strawmen are unbecoming, @ejoelwatts Posted on August 27, 2011 by Rod of Alexandria var addthis_product = 'wpp-261'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};His Joelness has once again started sipping the kool-aid with an arbitrary blurb about Plato not being a Christian. [...]
It was Aristotle who was the Christian.
Pah!