TY - BOOK ID - 4781850 TI - Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism : a comparative study of ancient morality PY - 2013 SN - 9780199673568 019967356X 0191576794 9786612613593 1282613596 0199578648 0191722863 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Church history KW - Stoics. KW - Ethics, Ancient. KW - Eglise KW - Stoïcisme KW - Morale ancienne KW - Histoire KW - Primitive and early church. KW - 30-600. KW - Stoïcisme UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4781850 AB - Christianity is commonly held to have introduced an entirely new and better morality into the ancient world, a new morality that was decidedly universal, in contrast to the ethics of the philosophical schools which were only concerned with the intellectual few. Runar M. Thorsteinsson presents a challenge to this view by comparing Christian morality in first-century Rome with contemporary Stoic ethics in the city.Thorsteinsson introduces and discusses the moral teaching of Roman Stoicism; of Seneca, Musonius Rufus, and Epictetus. He then presents the moral teaching of Roman Christianity as it i ER -