This book provides an excellent account of how Christianity acknowledged what was valid in the reigning Greek conception of divine perfection, diagnosed an essential and crippling consequence for the Greek project, and moved to meet this need. In an age torn by tensions between fundamentalist Christians and 'secular humanists, ' there is sorely needed an account of the interaction between Christianity and the pagan philosophy of its day. Contents: include: Aristotle and the Essential Failure, The Greek Convention of Perfection, Plotinus and the Recognition of the Problem, The Rationalist Paradigm, and The Greek Convention of Divine Self-Love.