Stoisisme Kristen: Dari Amor Fati kepada Amor Deus

Jadi Sampurna Lima (Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Reformed Injili Internasional, Indonesia)

Societas Dei: Jurnal Agama dan Masyarakat
Vol 10 No 1 (2023): Tentang Cara Pandang Sekuler dan Rohani

This article explains the relationship between Greco-Roman Stoicism and Stoicism in the Christian tradition by examining the primary and secondary sources of Cicero, Epictetus, Augustine, and Calvin. The theological-philosophical analysis will examine how theology, worldview, and the Gospel in “Christian Stoicism” as found in Calvin’s ethics have made it distinctive from Greco-Roman Stoicism. Superficially, there are similarities between the teachings of Calvin’s ethics and the ethics of Greco-Roman Stoicism. However, the two have sharp differences at their roots, namely at the theological, worldview, and eschatological levels. The ethical advice of these two groups may be similar in several respects, but they are rooted in radically different reasons.