Category: Toward a Therapy After the End of Miracles
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Endurance Without Consolation
The Epistle of James and the Ethical Prehistory of Born Man The Epistle of James occupies an uneasy position within the New Testament canon. Long perceived as ethically severe, theologically austere, and resistant to systematic integration with Pauline doctrine, James has often been treated as a corrective, an anomaly, or even a regression. Yet when…
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Longsuffering and the Burden of Time
Makrothymia, ’Erekh Appayim, and the Ethical Legacy of Endurance Among the ethical terms inherited by Christianity from the ancient world, few are as easily misunderstood—and as historically consequential—as μακροθυμία (makrothymia), commonly translated as “longsuffering” or “patience.” In modern usage the term is often reduced to emotional calm or passive waiting. In its original Greek, Jewish,…