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An academic dissertation surveys the Stoic philosophical school and its doctrines, then compares Stoic thought with Christian teaching and analyzes reciprocal influences between them. It outlines Stoic principles, moves to doctrinal comparisons that highlight ethics, providence, and conceptions of virtue, and traces ways in which Christian claims reshaped Stoic expression while Stoic language and moral concepts informed Christian theology and pastoral practice. The study concludes by assessing channels of intellectual exchange and practical adaptation in antiquity, weighing continuities and divergences without asserting dramatic rupture or total assimilation.

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Title: The mutual influence of Christianity and the Stoic school

Author: James Henry Bryant

Release date: May 8, 2024 [eBook #73570]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Macmillan and Co, 1866

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The Mutual Influence of Christianity and the Stoic School

THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE STOIC SCHOOL.
BY
JAMES HENRY BRYANT, B.D.
ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
INCUMBENT OF ASTLEY, WARWICKSHIRE.
μάντις εἴμ’ ἐσθλῶν ἀγώνων.
Soph. Œd. Col. 1080.
London and Cambridge:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1866.
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
TO HIS GRACE,
WILLIAM, DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., LL.D.
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,
THE FOLLOWING ESSAY, BEING
THE HULSEAN DISSERTATION
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, FOR THE YEAR 1865, IS
BY HIS GRACE’S KIND PERMISSION,
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.