Jul 2026· Bogoslovni vestnik· Vol 86, pp. 61-76· 0 citations
Abstract
This article examines Paul’s speech at the Areopagus (Acts 17:16-34) as a theologically grounded confrontation between the Gospel and Hellenistic conceptions of the good life. By analysing the concept of eudaimonia in Epicurean and Stoic philosophy, the study contends that Paul neither rejects nor assimilates the ancient pursuit of human flourishing. Instead, he reorients it by placing the question of a fulfilled life within an eschatological framework shaped by God’s salvific action. Through the call to repentance, the proclamation of judgment, and the announcement of resurrection, human fulfilment is redefined in terms of soteria rather than ethical or rational self-sufficiency. Considered within Luke’s narrative framework and in dialogue with authentic Pauline letters, the Areopagus speech reveals an early Christian reconfiguration of human flourishing grounded in the Gospel.
The relevance of the topic
is due to the need to revise the simplistic view of Soviet drama of the 1970
s
as exclusively ideologically engaged or “production-oriented”, as well as the growing scholarly interest in the existential dimension of late Soviet literature.
The problem lies in the fact that exi...
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