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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI. : Baker Academic, c2010.Description: xiii, 301 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801039515 (pbk.)
  • 0801039517 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.2 22
LOC classification:
  • BR128.A2 S76 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.