220
morality (continued)
79, 138, 147, 150, 166-169, 171,
199-200,202-205,208-209;of
God, 11-13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23-24,
47-61, 68, 69, 72, 83, 90, 132,
135, 167, 170-171, 202-203, 208
mystery cults, 160
negative liberty, 172
Neo-Pythagoreanism, 160
nihilism, 40, 61, 76, 138, 175
Nirvana, 14
nominalist tradition, 55
'olam (age, epoch, world), 125-126
Olympiodorus the Younger, 124
Origen, 66, 68, 76, 89, 103, 123,
159, 161
Orphic sects, 160
Pascal, Blaise, 76, 130-131
Paul, Apostle, 1, 18, 24, 25, 52, 73,
89, 94, 104-106, 118, 133-138,
145,153,163,165,200
person: Christ as, 189-190; God
as, 154; and the human ideal,
139-144; interpersonal relations
as essential to, 78-79, 144-158;
memories as essential com-
ponent of, 78, 152; salvation
of, 151-152; self in relation to,
154-155. See also soul
Peter 1, 162
Peter 2, 99-100, 112, 170
Philippians, epistle to, 100
Philo of Alexandria, 123
Plantinga, Alvin, 182
Plato and Platonism, 121-122, 124,
173; Phaedo, 160; Timaeus, 121,
127
IndexPowell, William, 152
predestination, 48, 49, 77, 85, 138
primary causality, 69-70
Prometheus, 39
protology, 68
providence, 183-184, 186-187
punishment: Christian conception
of, 44, 54; Gehenna/Valley of
Hinnom as site of, 113-115; pro-
portionality of, 44-45, 54, 132;
purification as purpose of, 1,
114, 116, 165; scriptural descrip-
tions of, 93-94, 116-117. See also
eternal hell; hell
purgatory, 118rational freedom, 171-179; choice
in relation to, 173; classical/
Christian conception of, 172-
173; creation as expression of
God's, 71-72; critique of com-
mon notions of, 35-37; defined,
79-80, 172-174; determinism
in relation to, 178-179, 183-184,
186-187; evil not an object of
desire for, 165, 174-175, 193; tlie
Good as object of desire for,
36-37, 39-42, 165, 170, 172-179,
184-186, 190-191; hell as result
of, 13, 22-23; limits of, 38-39,
146; pure, 40-42, 190; reality in
relation to, 193-195; rejection of
God incompatible with, 18, 43,
178, 180-181, 185, 188-189, 192-
193, 208; responsibility linked
to, 177; spectrum of, 40-41
Reformed tradition, 48-52, 76-77,
80-81, 137, 162, 170
resurrection, 46
revelation, 180