Stoicism in early christianity - Dunderberg, Ismo.; Engberg-Pedersen, Troels; Rasimus, Tuomas (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Missional Church; Bible. New Testament -- Philosophy; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.; Philosophy and religion -- Rome; Stoics