Maksimilijan Matjaž

The Quest for the Good Life: Paul’s speech to the Areopagus as Confrontation between Gospel and Hellenism

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 ancie...