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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

. 22Aristotic, Politics, Richard McKeon (ed.) The Basic Works of Aristotle (New York: Random House, 1941), I, i. "Plato, The Republic (New York: Basic Books, 1968), Bk. 5, pp. 461- 465. 24Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 2, chpt. 3. "Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, 3, ii, p. 115. 28Immanuel Kant, Foundations

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

115. ” Aristotle, Politics, Richard McKeon (ed.) The Basic Works of Aristotle (New York: Random House, 1941), I, i. Plato, The Republic (New York: Basic Books, 1968), Bk. 5, pp. 461- 465. ** Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 2, chpt. 3. °° Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, 3, i1, p. 115. Page |39 **Tmmanuel Kant,

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

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