Sentences with phrase «in stoic»

The Mexicans (particularly the hard - working staff I engaged with here) are in stoic horror.

Ultimately I have hope and faith in Stoic.

The world in Stoic's debut title is devoid of happiness in many ways and yet it teems with life, just waiting to break through the darkness.

Seemingly incapable of cracking a smile, he fits securely in the stoic - farmer tradition that stretches from John Wayne in «The Quiet Man» to Russell Crowe in «The Water Diviner.»

Although the acting isn't so hot from the non-professional bit part players, Ahmad Ravzi - also a non-professional actor and former push cart seller himself - puts in a stoic and solid performance.

The referee is standing far away from the fray, but occasionally an Atletico player will break free to point a finger in his stoic face.

At several places in his discussion Harned notes how significant patience has been in the Stoic tradition, and, indeed, how that tradition influenced early Christian thinkers.

If God, as in the Stoic conception, is «beyond fear and desire,» then «the wise man who courageously conquers desire, suffering, and anxiety «surpasses God himself»» (CTB 16).

It found its highest expression in the Stoic philosophy, which, for all its efforts to call men to the service of humanity, had for its aim the «self - sufficiency» of the individual (his «autarky», as the newspapers now say, adopting a word from the vocabulary of Stoicism, but usually misspelling it).

Nothing is further from the spirit of the sages than the idea of an autonomy of thinking, a humanism of the good life; in short, of a wisdom in the Stoic or Epicurean mode founded on the self - sufficiency of thought.

In fact a similar point of view is found in the Stoic philosophy, formulated in a way which reminds one of the saying in Matt.

In the Stoic philosophy, «providence» means nothing more than the teleological character which can be discerned in the working of natural law.

In the Gospel of John we have the most forthright and vivid use of the term, for its author, who was probably a Gentile Christian familiar with the Greek idea of the Logos, (The word Logos which holds a central place in Stoic philosophy, can be translated Word but this does not do justice to its full meaning.

When it does, we must accept it, not in complaining rebellion or even in stoic resignation, but in spiritual victory.

Not exact matches

• Stoic Holdings, a Denver - based lower - middle market private equity firm, acquired Arctic Industries, a Miami - based walk - in cooler manufacturer.

With a winning performance from Jonathan Banks, Mike became one of the most interesting and beloved characters in the series, with a hardened presence that makes him more stoic and intimidating than nearly anyone else in the show.

«All these ideas were far too «revolutionary» to be aired in the school magazine, The Stoic, a name which seemed only too apt to its long - suffering readers.

Salah's stoic reactions to his goals might strike some as odd, but it's rooted in tradition.

In keeping with McArdle family tradition, I was duly dispatched at the tender age of 8 by my stoic father and weeping mother to a British boarding school, there to learn independence and gentlemanly conduct in a setting unchanged since the glory days of the EmpirIn keeping with McArdle family tradition, I was duly dispatched at the tender age of 8 by my stoic father and weeping mother to a British boarding school, there to learn independence and gentlemanly conduct in a setting unchanged since the glory days of the Empirin a setting unchanged since the glory days of the Empire.

He hit the ball with authority and for distance and ushered in an aggressive, hitch - up - your - trousers, go - for - broke, in - your - face power game rarely seen in the often stoic and staid sport.

This reminds me of the Greek Stoics I learned about in college.

Paul was met by Epicureans and Stoics, who did not believe in a personal God.

Still less is there of Albert Camus's cheerless stoic call to moral sobriety in the face of bourgeois decadence.

When he finds city shrines and altars dedicated to a variety of idols, he debates their existence wherever and with whomever he can: in the synagogue with the Jews, in the marketplace with the buyers and sellers, in the town center with the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers.

While, however, the similarity between Paul and Seneca in many passages is unmistakable, this does not make Seneca a Christian or Paul a Stoic.

he appealed to «nature» as standard in a way a Stoic might have done; (I Corinthians 11:14 - 15) his praise of moderation and his use of «virtue» were in good current form; (Philippians 4:8.)

This is important because until the work of Frege the relation between Aristotelian syllogistic of class inclusion and the Stoic propositional calculus developed by Chrysippus and others remained shrouded in darkness.

the Augustinian God turns out to be remarkably like the Stoic sage: devoid of passions, unfamiliar with longing, foreign to suffering, dwelling in steady bliss, exhibiting to others only benevolence.

Clearly the elevation of non-pathos was not limited to Stoic writings; it permeates much of ancient Greek philosophy in general.

Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any [221] degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»

I am by no means the first to observe this dominant role of the Stoic ethic in how the theistic synthesis came to be expressed in the theologians I have been analyzing up to this point.

The «late Stoics» are represented in Rome by the ex-slave Epictetus (ca. 50 — 138 CE) and the emperor Marcus Aurelius (121 — 180).

It is not the Stoics» doctrine of God itself so much as the ethic of stoicism imposed upon the divine that has been utilized: to be utterly tranquil, unaffected by external exigencies, nonattached, disinterested — in short, apathetic (apatheia).

In The Crucified God (originally, 1972), an intentionally provocative title, Moltmann saw clearly that traditional Christian thought tried to resolve the tension between God's love and God's self - contained immutability by championing the Stoic elevation of apatheia as a way of characterizing a divine love that is no in way affected by the recipient of that lovIn The Crucified God (originally, 1972), an intentionally provocative title, Moltmann saw clearly that traditional Christian thought tried to resolve the tension between God's love and God's self - contained immutability by championing the Stoic elevation of apatheia as a way of characterizing a divine love that is no in way affected by the recipient of that lovin way affected by the recipient of that love.

Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.8

In the technical sense, yes, the Stoic philosophers did use para physin to mean unnatural, but this term also had a widespread popular meaning.

In this view, stoics from Seneca to Van Dusen deny life that more profound depth which may be afforded by continued experience — even suffering experience.

Some might suppose that John is using Platonic and Stoic concepts of the logos in an attempt to link universal and moral and religious experience with the incarnation.

The most important place in Susie's heaven is a pretty gazebo where she can watch those she has left behind: her shattered father obsessively attempting to solve her murder, her stoic mother trying to escape a «ruined heart» through «merciful adultery,» her baby brother struggling to understand that the word «dead» means Susie is never coming back.

It seems in such direct contrast to the Greek ideal of the rational human being, the theocratic ideal of the totally obedient churchperson, and the Stoic ideal of the passionless individual — all of which exerted formative influences on the style and practice of Western Christian spirituality.

There is little to indicate its date, except that the author seems to blend the Jewish wisdom literature as found in Proverbs with the style of the Cynic and Stoic traveling preachers.

How can it be a comfort to know that your misdeeds in life can condemn your soul to eternal suffering is beyond my hardest stoic conviction.

There's a moral precision about him as a man and as a public servant; without being prissy or showy in his moralism, he sets himself to the Stoic task of seeing that the jobs at hand are those that will be done.

«Uncle Will» has a fully developed teaching on the place of man in the cosmos, the indispensability of the Stoic virtues of magnanimity and generosity, and loneliness, class, understanding, beauty, and love.

Stoic insensibility and Epicurean resignation were the farthest advance which the Greek mind made in that direction.

Back in the day they were stoic (and silent) in the face of lions, frightfully ingenious torture devices, and burly pagans with swords.

In its ideological foundations political democracy is derived both from the Stoic conception of a natural law of human equality and the Christian idea of the worth and dignity of all men in the sight of GoIn its ideological foundations political democracy is derived both from the Stoic conception of a natural law of human equality and the Christian idea of the worth and dignity of all men in the sight of Goin the sight of God.

There is in most of us a spark of reason, and much was achieved for universal human moral standing by the great Stoic philosophers who emphasized this logos in us all.

Birzer makes a case for Kirk's orthodoxy, but acknowledges that his outlook was more Stoic than Christian, especially in his most intellectually productive period.

But America is good, it seems, in part because it can find places for Southerners, especially Southern Stoics (think the novelist Tom Wolfe, Atticus Finch, Admiral Stockdale, Navy SEALS, and the proud men of Morehouse), Catholics (as, to begin with, the best organized in countercultural thought and action of our large institutional religions), and Heideggerians (who are right, after all, about the American propensity for inauthentically deferring to the «they» of public opinion and scientific expertise).