ABSTRACT
Stoicism and Christianity frequently converge in their moral teaching, though at the same time Christians vehemently repudiate the materialistic theology of the Greek school. After a brief review of the history of Stoicism, this chapter examines its ambivalent reception in the apologists and Clement. It considers in some detail the alleged Stoicism of Tertullian and the arguments deployed by Origen against the determinism which seems to him the most pernicious element of Stoic doctrine. The final section discusses the Christian modification of the Stoic terms apatheia (“passionlessness”) and propatheia (pre-passion”).
