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A Phenomenology of Samaritan Compassion: The Stoics and Their Limits585 views
Author
Farley, Matthew, Religious Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia0000-0002-7266-6958
Advisors
Hart, Kevin, AS-Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Mathewes, Charles, Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Suarez, Michael, PV-Book Arts Press, University of Virginia
Wawrykow, Joseph , Theology, University of Notre Dame
Abstract
This dissertation defends the compassionate flesh of Jesus as glimpsed in Luke's parable of the Good Samaritan from an anti-compassion tradition that ranges from the ancient Stoa to Lipsius, from Nietzsche to Paul Bloom. This dissertation also shows how the virility of Stoic discursive formations in the Hellenic world made it difficult for the first generations of Christian theologians to read the Gospel flesh of Jesus transparently. It was not until the monastery schools and abbeys of twelfth-century France that Jesus' compassion was appropriated as an ideal form of Christian humanitas.
Degree
PHD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Keywords
History of Christianity, Systematic Theology, Christology, Philosophy of Emotions, Religious Emotions, Stoicism, Ancient Philosophy, Postmodern Theology, Phenomenology and Theology, Continental Philosophy
Language
English
Rights
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Farley, Matthew. A Phenomenology of Samaritan Compassion: The Stoics and Their Limits. University of Virginia, Religious Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 2020-10-31, https://doi.org/10.18130/v3-xf6x-dn40.
