Emotion in Lactantius: Vulnerability in Virtue and Worship

This article explores emotion in Lactantius’s Divinae institutiones6 in light of his De ira Dei and in the context of true worship. For Lactantius, emotion involves vulnerability. Emotion is necessary for virtue because it is necessary to caring. Worship requires virtue and recognising one’s creatur...

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Main Author: Cartwright, Sophie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2017
In: Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 272-303
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus 250-317, Divinae institutiones / Stoicism / Emotion / Idea of God
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NBC Doctrine of God
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Lactantius emotion Stoicism vulnerability divine passibility Christianity and Roman Culture philosophy image of God
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