One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300180121)

In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary work of philosophy and biblical studies, New Testament scholar C. Kavin Rowe explores the promise and problems inherent in engaging rival philosophical claims to what is true. Juxtaposing the Roman Stoics Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius with the Christian saints Paul, Luke, and Justin Martyr, and incorporating the contemporary views of Jeffrey Stout, Alasdair McIntyre, Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Pierre Hadot, and others, the author suggests that in a world of religious pluralism there is negligible gain in sampling from separate belief systems. This thought-provoking volume reconceives the relationship between ancient philosophy and emergent Christianity as a rivalry between strong traditions of life and offers powerful arguments for the exclusive commitment to a community of belief and a particular form of philosophical life as the path to existential truth.

Author: C. Kavin Rowe
ISBN-10: 0300180128
ISBN-13: 9780300180121
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2016
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2016