GLOSSARY: TERMS AND DEFINITIONS


TERMS AND DEFINITIONS USED IN THIS COURSE

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Scandal of particularity

The difficulty of regarding a single individual man (Jesus) as being the saviour for all men.

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Stoicism

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not suffer such emotions

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