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1. Jan. 2012 · Abstract. This chapter explores classical Mediterranean thought on suffering through a detailed examination of one Greek tragedy, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, in which both moral philosophy and medicine also feature. Suffering in this play has no inherent metaphysical or ethical status, but it does raise the rather practical as well as ethical ...
Bethany specialises in the problem of suffering from a theological perspective. Her latest book is Why is there Suffering: Pick your own Theological Adventure , published by Zondervan. Mary Ellen and Jackson Rogers lost their six year old daughter, Amity, to Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, a type of brain tumour. They live in Sydney.
To develop a personal theology of suffering that is biblically-based, look at the character and nature of God. The Bible tells us that God is gracious, merciful, almighty, slow to anger, sovereign, loving, and powerful, and more. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and ...
Stoic Quotes on Suffering & Pain from Seneca. “We suffer more often in our imagination than we do in reality.”. “ He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary. “Some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all.
OF HUMAN SUFFERING. Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I. INTRODUCTION. 1. Declaring the power of salvific suffering, the Apostle Paul says: "In my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church" (1).
Samsara is an infinitely complex process of interdependently originating and re-originating phenomena, characterized by change (anicca), non-self-identity (anatta), and suffering (dukkha) – the so-called Three Marks of Existence (tilakkhana). This construction is driven forward by karma, the law of cause and effect.
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. Eckhart Tolle. Spiritual, Ego, Suffering. Eckhart Tolle (2006).
