On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 1:25:25 PM UTC-5, Richard Silk wrote:
Finally! someone quoted something in this forum with actual
significance!!
Thank you!
A scanned copy of "Meditations," translated by the Anglican priest
Maxwell Staniforth, is at
https://books.google.com/books?id=WV7Teosv0bIC
On Pages 23-27 of the Introduction, Staniforth discussed the profound
influence of Sticism on Christianity, as posted and referenced at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.christnet.christianlife/4LL1RZGfKl0
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.christnet.christianlife/s2KVd1TJ6X8
Marcus Aurelius also made many references to the Stoic concept of
the divinity within each person. In particular:
Book 3:12 "keeping the divinity within you pure and upright"
Book 3:15 "divinity seated in his breast"
Book 5:27 "wholly fulfilling the will of that inward divinity"
Book 12:1 "divine spark within you"
Within this long-established and widely known concept, which was
also part of Stoic Philosophy, the early Christian references
to the divine nature of Jesus make perfect sense--and all the
subsequent convoluted formulas and dogmas were completely
unnecessary and divisive.
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