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

The Interpreter's Bible: Luke and John, Vol. 8 (Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1952), p. 465. 6 Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley, CA.: University of California, 1969), p. 178. 'Richard Rubinstein, Aristotle's Children (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2003) sEdward Scribner Ames, Religion (Chicago: Holt, 1929

lly his paraphrase and generalization of Darwin’s, is not quite a truism because it carries the hypothesis that “potential” has an empirical meaning. Aristotle’s idea that potency precedes and explains act is called causality. Adam Smith’s friend and fellow Scotsman David Hume scarcely doubted causality, but

d along inland rivers. Somehow the taste for Keynesian intervention resonated best in “saltwater” seaboard school such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and University of California. It is probably no coincidence that the saltwater states are the “blue” ones tending to vote Democrat, while the freshwater ones are the “red” ones f

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

> The Interpreter’s Bible: Luke and John, Vol. 8 (Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1952), p. 465. ° Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley, CA.: University of California, 1969), p. 178. "Richard Rubinstein, Aristotle’s Children (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2003) ‘Edward Scribner Ames, Religion (Chicago: Holt, 1929).