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Overcoming Apathy

Undeceptions with John Dickson

CHAPTER

The Virtue of Apathy

In the ancient world, apothea was seen as a virtue for humans. As Christian ancients sort of adopted this thinking, they sort of Christianized it. God is not moved by the ups and downs of human life; he's impassable. Apothea in the sense of bringing your emotions into disciplined proportion was taken pretty seriously by some church leaders.

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