Paul the apostle (esp. 1 Cor. 15; and 2 Cor. 4:16—5:10), the author of Hebrews (esp. chs. 1—2), and the author of the Gospel of John (esp. 1:1–14) are history's most consequential metaphysicians and it isn't particularly close--the audacity to baptize and to raise Middle Platonist and Stoic metaphysics in the christological reception of the Jewish creational tradition. - Chris Kugler