Jesus and Socrates
Given their singular significance to the development of Western culture, it is strangely appropriate that Jesus and Socrates led similar lives. ... The philosophy of Socrates was as liberating - perhaps as salvific - as the religion of Jesus. ... Some, like Joseph Priestley, argued that Socrates thought was elaborate and beautiful, but Jesus ideas and life were the very embodiment of God on this earth. Christian intellectuals, drawing on this idea, have often noted that they were students of Socrates and disciples of Jesus.