Epstein Secrets

etween Greek philosophical psychology and Christianity can be found in the use of Stoic theories of desire by the apostle Paul, 3 the presence of Aristotle's family ethic — with its implicit psycho-biology - in the household codes of Ephesians and I Colossians, 4 and the gospel of John's identificati

cy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Troels Engbert- Perdersen, Paul and the Stoics (Louisville, KY,: Westminster John Knox, 2000). °Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (New York: Random House, 1941), Bk. VIII, ch. 10. 3 The Interpreter's Bible: Luke and John, Vol. 8 (Nashville, TN.: Abingdon

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is between Greek philosophical psychology and Christianity can be found in the use of Stoic theories of desire by the apostle Paul, * the presence of Aristotle’s family ethic — with its implicit psycho-biology - in the household codes of Ephesians and I Colossians, * and the gospel of John’s identification o

& Carr, T. H. (2005). When high-powered people fail: Working memory and "choking under pressure” in math. Psychological Science, 16, 101-105. Allen, K. M., Blascovich, J., & Mendes, W.B. (2002). Cardiovascular reactivity and the presence of pets, friends, and spouses: The truth about cats and dogs. Psyc

y we feel in witnessing another’s misfortune. Though the emotion is universally understood, recognized in our written records at least as far back as Aristotle, the German language is one of the few to capture the feeling by tapping the brain’s promiscuity, combining the word for harm (schaden) with the word

.J. (1992). Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizeable groups. Ethology and Sociobiology, 113, 171-195; Carlsmith, K. M., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). The paradoxical consequences of revenge. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95 (6), 1316-1324; de