“What Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger”: Paul and Epictetus on the Correlation of Virtues and Suffering
Do Paul and Epictetus have a way to correlate suffering with the growth of virtues? This essay discusses passages in Epictetus’s Discourses, which speak of the moral ἀγών and Paul’s catena in Rom 5:3-5. While suffering does not have a direct formative influence on “virtues” for either thinker, it ca...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
2020
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The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2020, Volume: 82, Issue: 2, Pages: 256-275 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Epictetus 50-130, Dissertationes
/ Pauline letters
/ Suffering
/ Virtue
B Agōn / Hope |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NBE Anthropology NCB Personal ethics TB Antiquity VA Philosophy |
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Dignity
B AGON (The Greek word) B EPICTETUS, ca. 55-135 B agon B Epictetus B Suffering B Paul B Hope B Virtues |
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