Stoicism in early Christianity / edited by Tuomas Rasimus, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, and Ismo Dunderberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rasimus, Tuomas.

Engberg-Pedersen, Troels.

Dunderberg, Ismo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament.

Stoics.

Philosophy and religion--Rome.

Philosophy and religion.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Bible. New Testament--Philosophy.

Bible.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 301 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, [2010]

Contents:

Setting the scene : Stoicism and Platonism in the transitional period in ancient philosophy / Troels Engberg-Pedersen

Stoicism as a key to Pauline ethics in Romans / Runar M. Thorsteinsson

Stoic law in Paul? / Niko Huttunen

Jesus the teacher and Stoic ethics in the gospel of Matthew / Stanley K. Stowers

An "emotional" Jesus and Stoic tradition / Harold W. Attridge

The emotional Jesus : anti-Stoicism in the fourth gospel? / Gitte Buch-Hansen

Stoic physics, the universal conflagration, and the eschatological destruction of the "ignorant and unstable" in 2 Peter / J. Albert Harrill

The Stoics and the early Christians on the treatment of slaves / John T. Fitgerald

Facing the beast : Justin, Christian martyrdom, and freedom of the will / Nicola Denzey

A Stoic reading of the Gospel of Mary : the meaning of "matter" and "nature" in Gospel of Mary 7.1-8.11 / Esther de Boer

Stoic traditions in the school of Valentinus / Ismo Dunderberg

Critical reception of the Stoic theory of passions in the Apocryphon of John / Takashi Onuki

Stoic ingredients in the Neoplatonic being-life-mind triad : an original second-century Gnostic innovation? / Tuomas Rasimus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780801039515

0801039517

9781598564457

1598564455

OCLC:

637710865

Publisher Number:

99941234552