{"id":8688,"date":"2020-04-27T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:47:51","slug":"paul-and-the-giants-of-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8688","title":{"rendered":"PAUL AND THE GIANTS OF PHILOSOPHY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A terrific introduction to the similarities and differences between Paul and other philosophers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have been interested especially in how Christianity interacted with Stoicism. This book has much to offer in that regard. The various contributions are balanced and wise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recently, I interviewed C. Kavin Rowe on his influential book, <em>One True Life<\/em>. There is an entire chapter in <em>Paul and the Giants of Philosophy<\/em> dedicated to looking at the strengths and potential weaknesses of Rowe\u2019s book. That chapter alone made this book a worthwhile read.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B07XVSTDFT\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terrific introduction to the similarities and differences between Paul and other philosophers. I have been interested especially in how Christianity interacted with Stoicism. This book has much to offer in that regard. The various contributions are balanced and wise. Recently, I interviewed C. Kavin Rowe on his influential book, One True Life. There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,43,110,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-christianity","category-philosophy","category-worldview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}