| Mack greatly overemphasizes the influence of Hellenism on Jesus and the Gospels. |
| The possibility of building such a world was precisely what Hellenism denied, and precisely what we affirm when we take God seriously. |
| How faith in Jesus Christ made a difference with respect to Judaism or the culture and religious practices of Hellenism was still not clear. |
| At nineteenth-century Oxford, as is well known, liberal university reformers mobilized under the banner of a secular Hellenism. |
| It is not as history but rather as a model of history that Hellenism matters. |
| They had a shared sense of Hellenism and a common religion and language and often aligned themselves with native Greek concerns. |
