| 042 | Do you think there were Greek Philosophers teaching around Palestine at the time of Jesus? |
| 042 | In his book Christ and the Cynics, F. Gerald Downing shows there are in fact close parallels between the teachings of the synoptic Gospels and the philosophy of the itinerant Greek Cynics. | F.Gerald Downing, The Church and Jesus: A Study in History, Philosophy and Theology , Studies in Biblical Theology - Second Series 10, ed. C.F.D. Moule et al. (London: SCM Press Ltd, 1968). |