
Claire Hall on Firmicus Maternus
Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
The Early Christian Polemics Against Astrology
The anti-fatalist argument is pretty robust by the fourth century. They fall into a few different categories that the kind of early Christian responses to astrology and a surprising number of them are just like, no, it's evil and immoral. But yes, of course, one of the things that they do argue against is the aspect of fate. How can you be judged if you were just fated to do something? So they make these surprisingly practical arguments.
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