Title: Stoicism in early Christianity
Description: Highlighting the place of Stoic teaching in early Christian thought, an international roster of scholars challenges the prevailing view that Platonism was the most important philosophical influence on early Christianity. They suggest that early Christians were more often influenced by Stoicism than by Platonism, an insight that sheds new light on the relationship between philosophy and religion at the birth of Christianity.
Subjects: Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Stoics, Bible, Church history, Bible, philosophy, Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Rome, religion
Places: Rome
Time periods: Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600