Acts and Paul, xix
Adam, 19n160, 24–25, 34, 37–38, 66, 69–73, 99n321, 126, 154, 192–93, 211, 232
Adonis, 35
ages, 43n87, 43n91, 153–55, 157, 178, 254n1
amygdala, 22, 100n327. See also brain
animals. See bestial minds
apocalyptic, 41n78, 53n167, 125n102, 157, 177n14, 179n27, 210, 215n272, 235n135, 241, 242n42, 243, 244n50, 251, 277. See also ages
Aristotle, Aristotelians, 21, 38, 91n268, 92n274, 95, 118n40, 121, 124–25, 136, 146n22, 148, 163n181, and passim
Augustine, 23n193, 57–58, 90n260, 90n262, 95–96, 215n272
bar mitzvah. See coming-of-age rituals
beauty, 229
belly, as image for pleasure or desire, 233–35
Bengel, J., 58
bestial minds, 234–35
body, figurative social, 170–71
body (physical)
in ancient thought, 100–105
See also flesh
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 206n206
brain, 22, 100, 107, 223n38, 263. See also neurochemistry
Calvin, J., 58n20. See also the author index
cardinal sins, 23n193
catachresis, 191n105
Chrysippus, 11n85, 91–92n273, 93, 124, 169n220, 221n24, 273n58
citizenship, heavenly, 232–36
cognitive and experiential/affective, xx–xxi, 263n17
cognitive reckoning in ancient sources, 46–49
coming-of-age rituals, 89
criteria, ethical and legal, 159–62. See also evaluation
Cybele, 36
Cynics, Cynicism, xviii, 20n170, 46n107, 47, 79, 108, 109n396, 110n410, 162, 178n20, 189, 203n177, 227, 228n84, 234n122, 235, 270n23, 270n28, 272n49, 274n65. See also the ancient sources index (e.g., epistles attributed to Crates, Diogenes, Socratics)
design, divine, ancient views concerning, 10–11
desire. See passion
divinization in Greek and Roman thought, 202–5
dying and rising deities, 35–37
Edwards, Jonathan, xx, 128n121, 206n206
Eleusis, Eleusinian mysteries, 36, 269n22
enargeia, 65
Epicureanism
and afterlife, 155n100, 268–69, 270, 276n87
anthropology of, 91n272, 101n331, 103n354, 268–69, 273n61
and design, 9
epistemology of, 188n81
and matter (atomism), 268
and passion, pleasure, 20–21, 162n157, 169n217, 220n20, 233n116
and tranquility, 136
vs. Stoicism, 21, 92n275, 169n217, 205n201, 220n18
Erasmus, 57–58
ethnic exclusivity or embrace, 111n417, 111n418, 169n220, 170, 246
evaluation, 184–89. See also criteria, ethical and legal
faith, 5, 5–6n22, 27, 31–33, 44–45, 52–54, 224
Fate/fate, 40n69, 95, 129, 130, 159n130, 167n205, 220, 220n17
first movements, 22
flesh, 101–3. See also body (physical)
forensic and/or transformational, 45n101, 50, 53, 138n208, 254, 263
Francke, A. H., 58
gnosticism, 57, 104n366, 105, 109n397, 163n171, 190n96, 193n117, 202n156, 247, 274n65
good, the, 161–62
gratitude, ingratitude, 12, 133, 224
happiness, 20–22, 92n277, 157, 220–21, 227n73, 228n84. See also joy
heavenly matters in ancient Mediterranean thought, 238–43
hermeneutics, xxi n12, and passim
Hermetica, 48, 87n239, 202n156
heroes, 164, 202n157, 203, 249n87, 274n66
“I” (first person pronoun) in Romans 7:7–25, 66–76
identification with Christ, 49–53
identity formation in social sciences, 33n3
idolatry (veneration of deity images), 14–17, 23–24
immortality of soul, belief in, 269–74
among Jewish thinkers, 276–78
impulse, evil and good. See yetsers
indicative and imperative, 51–54
indwelling of deity, 130–32
innate knowledge, ancient views of, 10
Isis, 269n22. See also Osiris
Israel under law in Romans 7:7–25, 72–76
Jerome, 57, 68. See also the ancient sources index
joy, 42, 46, 120, 220–24, 231. See also happiness
Kant, Immanuel, 6n22, 44n98, 258n3
Kepler, Johannes, 262
Kierkegaard, Søren, 5n22, 44n98
knowledge of God, 6–8
law. See Torah
law in the mind, 97–98
law of nature. See natural law, law of nature
Luther, M., 58
Medea, 92–95
metabolē, 193n117
metamorphoses, 156–58
Middle Platonism, xix, 10, 38, 96, 239n14, and passim
military imagery. See warfare imagery, figurative
mirrors, 212n259
figurative, 212n260
Mithraism, 131n156, 271n37, 274n65
moderation, 38–39
moral dilemmas, 90n262
mystery cults, 6n24, 35–37, 102n348, 156n104, 156n106, 163n171, 202n156, 207n217, 269n22, 274n65
natural law, law of nature, 11n85, 26n211, 73n138, 74, 97n309
nature, in ancient thought (esp. philosophy), 8–11, 14, 15, 19n159, 22, 26, 27n212, 28, 46n102, 48, and passim
Neoplatonism, 5n16, 38n52, 98n316, 104n367, 105, 131, 147, 204, 206n206, 208, 272
neurochemistry, 100n327, 107, 223, 261, 263, 264n18
new creation, 26, 39, 43, 43n88, 97, 154, 211, 213, 214n270, 241n29, 253, 259, 264
New Perspective, xviii n8
Origen, 22–23, 45, 56, 63n63, 68, 70n119, 73n138, 90n260. See also the ancient sources index
Orthodoxy, Eastern, 206, 215n272
Osiris, 35
passion
in Greek and Roman thought, 16, 19–23, 82–85, 233
in Jewish thought, 76–78, 85–90
passions, eradication of, 21, 22, 27, 38–39, 78, 83n202, 101, 135n177
Paul, as intellectual, xix
perfect, 163–65
Peripatetics. See Aristotle, Aristotelians
personality types, xxi n12
Pietism, 58
Plato. See Middle Platonism; Neoplatonism; the author index
pleasure, 20–21
postcolonial interpretation, 175n6
prayer, 223–24
prosōpopoiia, 68–69
providence, 167n205, 224. See also Fate/fate
reason vs. passion in ancient thought, xvi, 1, 19–23, 28–29, 38–39, 46, 77, 79, 81, 86, 87–88, 91, 93, 96, 100, 104n360, 108n390, 117
reincarnation, 156n106, 271, 277n97, 278n103
Religionsgeschichte school, 36
resurrection, 19n161, 34n7, 41, 53, 54, 57n16, 98n314, 99, 105–6, 109n398, 133, 138, 154, 155, 158, 174, 192n110, 193n115, 213, 215, 250, 278
background of, 37, 139n213, 140n221, 157, 205n203, 241n30, 275, 276, 277nn97–98
sacrifices in antiquity, 146–49
figurative, 147–48
senses, 21n184, 105n373, 187–88, 207, 208
Septuagint, 138n210, and passim
Skeptics, Skepticism (philosophy), 104, 136n182, 188, 268
slavery, figurative, 39–41
soul in ancient Mediterranean thought, 267–78
immortality or mortality of, 269–74, 276–78
Jewish views of, 274–76
Spirit vs. flesh, background for, 101–3
Stoicism, xv n2, xix, 9, 20–23, 26, 27, 31–32, 34, 38–39, 46, 48–49, 51–52, 77–78, 80, 81n182, 83, 87, 89n250, and passim
struggle, internal, 90–92
theosis, 206n207
throne visions, 242–43
Torah
and life, 71
and passion, xvi, 19, 28, 32, 63, 74–75, 77–78, 87–88, 96, 101, 106, 117
tranquility, 135–41, 170, 223, 240, 273
transformation, 156–58, 211–15
virtue (aretē), 227–29
vision, of the divine, 12, 207–12
warfare imagery, figurative, 109–11
Whitefield, George, 186n65
will, human, 95–97
wrath, divine, 4–5