“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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Publicado en:Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 82; no. 2; pp. 256 - 277
Autor principal: Bertschmann, Dorothea H.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Catholic Biblical Association of America Apr2020
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