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Emotion Made Right
Hellenistic Moral Progress and the (Un)Emotional Jesus in Mark
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Richard James Hicks
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
Prominent Hellenistic moralists from ca. the first century CE warn that all emotions carry temptation(s) to sin or error. To be guilty of emotional sin is to allow psychosomatic feelings (or rising emotion) free reign to trump godly (rational) guidance of behavioral pursuits. Thus, morally minded Hellenists widely view unemotional behavior as a sign of moral progress. Emotive language peppers the Markan narrative, inviting moral assessments, yet scholarship has seldom delved into a historical-literary analysis of Jesus's emotional characterization. This study proposes a working definition of emotion apropos the narratival nature of Hellenistic emotion theory. It finds that Jesus consistently vanquishes emotional temptations with “battle” techniques similar to those championed by the moralists. Mark characterizes Jesus in the moral tradition of the anti-emotional exemplar, and several minor characters are liberated from destructive emotions through the mercy of Jesus's godly rationale. By recognizing the Markan Jesus as a model, this study outlines a method for persevering in emotional testing that modern readers might also emulate to resist temptation with divine help.
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Richard J. Hicks, Vernon Hill, VA, USA.
Reviews
18.10.2024
F. Scott Spencer, Review of Biblical Literature, 07/2024.
F. Scott Spencer, Review of Biblical Literature, 07/2024.
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eBook published on:
September 20, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110723076
Hardcover published on:
September 20, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110723045
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Front matter:
8
Main content:
271
Audience(s) for this book
Theolog/-innen, Religionswissenschaftler/-innen, Religionsphilosop/-innen.
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