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Subject: Christian Church / History, Christian Theology / History, Religious, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical width: 6.1 in Item Weight: 24.1 Oz ISBN: 9780300180121 Item Height: 1.1 in Format: Hardcover Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy Item Width: 6.1 in Book Title: One True Life : The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditio Publisher: Yale University Press height: 1.1 in Publication Year: 2016 Language: English Publication Name: One True Life : the Stoics and Early Christians As Rival Traditions Author: C. Kavin Rowe Item Length: 9.2 in Type: Textbook Number of Pages: 344 Pages

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One True Life : The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions, Hardcove.... One True Life : The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions, Hardcover by Rowe, C. Kavin, ISBN 0300180128, ISBN-13 9780300180121, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary work of philosophy and biblical studies, New Testament scholar C. Kavin Rowe explores the promise and problems inherent in engaging rival philosophical claims to what is true. Juxtaposing the Roman Stoics Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius with the Christian saints Paul, Luke, and Justin Martyr, and incorporating the contemporary views of Jeffrey Stout, Alasdair McIntyre, Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Pierre Hadot, and others, the author suggests that in a world of religious pluralism there is negligible gain in sampling from separate belief systems. This thought-provoking volume reconceives the relationship between ancient philosophy and emergent Christianity as a rivalry between strong traditions of life and offers powerful arguments for the exclusive commitment to a community of belief and a particular form of philosophical life as the path to existential truth.

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