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On the Anger of God
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On the Anger of God

work by Lactantius
Also known as: “De ira Dei”
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  • Cicero
    Stoicism
    / Stoic undercurrents in medieval thought

    …called De ira Dei (313; On the Anger of God). It poses a problem of how to deal with the essentially Greek, or philosophical, view that God cannot feel anger because he is not subject to passions and that apatheia (“apathy,” or “imperturbableness”) is not merely the mark of the…

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    …called De ira Dei (313; On the Anger of God). It poses a problem of how to deal with the essentially Greek, or philosophical, view that God cannot feel anger because he is not subject to passions and that apatheia (“apathy,” or “imperturbableness”) is not merely the mark of the…

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