{"product_id":"9781532615375","title":"God as Creator in Acts 17:24: An Historical-Exegetical Study","description":"The Areopagus speech of Acts provides a helpful study of how Paul both engaged and confronted the contemporary culture of his day to present the message of Christianity to his hearers in Athens. How does Paul, as a Jew, contextualize the message for his audience of Stoic and Epicurean philosophers in Athens on the topic of God as Creator in Acts 17:24? Paul touches on a subject of contentious debate between Stoics and Epicureans when he identifies God as Creator. Stoics believed in a creating deity, something akin to Plato's demiurge of the Timaeus. Epicureans ridiculed such an idea. By using the identification of God as Creator, Paul engages a common controversy between schools of philosophy.","brand":"Wipf \u0026 Stock Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147322081520,"sku":"9781532615375","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781532615375_p0.jpg?v=1763742476","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781532615375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}