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Philosophers are known to question, analyze and evaluate everything but do not always end with concrete conclusions. Plato’s Euthyphro and Apology, to no surprise, highlight one of such debate: the human characteristics of wisdom. Though Plato was one of the earliest philosophers, the topic of wisdom is still debated by modern philosophers today, contemplating questions such as “What are the classifications of ‘wisdom’?” According to Plato’s two dialogues, the characteristics of wisdom have a strong correlation with the characteristics of “being a good person”. This concept highlights the values of virtue and selflessness and at the same time juxtapose views on virtue while taking into account the different forms of rationality. In this paper, I will highlight how Plato uses his two dialogues to enforce his own opinion about the relationship between being wise and being a good person, and evaluate the inconsistencies within this claim.

The article, Studying Wisdom: Toward a Christian Integrative Perspective by McLaughlin and McMinn (2015), focused on discovering the relationship and exploration of wisdom through the integration of Christianity and psychology. The article explains that the area of wisdom has historically been viewed separately as a religious term and scientific psychology term. The article proposes four different approaches to the integration of wisdom with Christianity and psychology, strengths and potential areas of study and explanation of the importance of expanding integration of Christianity and psychology. The article begins by explaining the different approaches to studying wisdom. The article provided background of each approach that allows for discussion and more research on how to integrate these approaches to psychology.

In the New Testament, words like wisdom and wisely are translated from the Greek word “phronimos” (blueletterbible.org). It is translated to mean prudent, sensible, and wise (Vine, 2006). In Luke 1:17, phronimos is used when the angel says “And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord,” (NKJ). Throughout the New Testament, it appears that wisdom is mostly referred to as something gained through life experiences or experiences from God. It seems to also be implied that wisdom is the best in old age.

Merrick, J. (2015). The wisdom and mercy of God. In Grand Canyon University (Ed.), The beginning of wisdom: An introduction to Christian thought and life (2nd ed.). Available from http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/grand-canyon-university/2015/the-beginning-of-wisdom_an-introduction-to-christian-thought-and-life_ebook_2e.php

Paul’s mission’s on reaching the people of God and spreading the word of Christ is driven by the bold spirit imparted to and the rest of the Apostles conducting Christ’s mission. The Holy Spirit speaks to directly to believers guiding them on how to conduct their missions as well as manifesting through speaking in tongues of

Paul was devoted to spreading the gospel to many different people groups. An example from Paul's life that has taught me about spreading God's word is when he preached on his first missionary journey in Acts 13, even after many Jews slandered him and argued against everything he said. Paul’s demonstration of courage in this situation is very inspiring to me. It teaches me to be bold in my belief of the gospel, even when people disagree with me. Another

Wisdom is the understanding of the concealed truths of the world and is the knowledge surrounding the human condition. It is when these truths and knowledge of humanity are organized in text, when the genre of wisdom and content combine, that Wisdom literature is formed. The aim of Wisdom literature is to search for propriety, the order of things in time and place (Narendorf). The Book of Job is an example of this aim as Job reveals alternative insight into the consequences of human behavior. Likewise, Aias and Odysseus, in Sophocles’ Aias, also offer a contradiction of conventional wisdom in regards to human relationships.

The Epistles talk about wisdom in other ways too. In the letters to the Corinthians we lean much about wisdom and knowledge. They say the wisdom of God is a mystery. It being so great that man cannot understand the amount. It tells us to be wise in the knowledge of God's word because Satan will take advantage of our ignorance of his ways. If a foolish

In reviewing the reading assignment, 2 Corinthians, chapters 10-13, the arguments do Paul’s opponents at the church in Corinth use against him was about his apostolic authority (Harris, 2014 p.349). When Paul wrote Chapters 10-13, he wrote with passion, but he was also defended his ability that he had the right to lead as well as teach the Gospel. When Paul was speaking and did not accept payment for his apostolic services, they felt that he knew that he did not deserve it due to him not being a true Christian leader. In Paul’s letters to the Corinthians, some thought it was Paul “bragging”, but for Paul, he is speaking from the heart and how he felt about his beliefs about getting out the message of the Gospel. Paul defends his ability to

Wisdom and knowledge are two things that many human dedicate their lives for. Some people became scholars, philosophers, academics in the pursuit of truth, whether in the metaphysical realm or on Earth. Some the early times in human history where this took place was in Greek in “[During] Pre-Socratic philosophy are from the 6th Century BCE” (Plato notes). Plato and Socrates were the fathers of philosophy which gave the world the foundations of western civilization. With so many people trying to pursuit wisdom and knowledge, these two things were offered compared and contrasted especially in The greek era. Two pieces of work that that have these two things as

The Apostle Paul’s strategic mission of expanding the church and spreading the Gospel was significant considering the challenges he had to conquer. His life and example was and is applicable to modern cross-cultural leaders and organizations. Philippians 2 is a letter written by Paul to the church of Philippi. It was prepared during his imprisonment in Rome for spreading the Gospel of Christ in an area where people predominately and traditionally believed in Judaism. His writing in this passage highlights Christ as the ultimate example of humility and Paul’s encouragement to his followers to keep the unity, as they are the light of the world.

This huge undeserved forgiveness begetting this huge love in his heart for the Lord merged with his tenacious heart and he took all he had and went after spreading the Gospel. Only death could stop him from spreading the gospel, as we clearly see, even imprisonment only amounted to a changing of forum and audience for his sharing of the good news. Paul had a great grasp of the culture of the gentiles because he lived amongst them. His fluency in both Hebrew and Greek helped him wield dialects of both peoples with the elements of the cultures to help all he was commishioned to reachout to understand the truth. And that very truth was something he understood at a heart level as he saw himself as the chief of all sinners, the worst of all men.

Wisdom Tradition is a term applied to the Old Testament books of Proverbs, Job, Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon, and Ecclesiastes. Wisdom Tradition books all share characteristics and points of view that are somewhat different than other biblical books. Wisdom tradition has very prominent characteristics from other books in the Old Testament such as a search for the goal of life, how to master it and questioning the problems of life, showing interest to human experiences that affect all people, joy of creativity and creation, and very little interest in the great acts of divine salvation. These qualities appear in a few books in the Old Testament. All of them show wisdom, but only some show both wisdom and tradition. Books such as Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes values the beauty of creation and the confidence of human life and nature. This was a new concept to Israel. They learned about wisdom tradition through other nations. They were influenced from Mesopotamian literature and took their ideas of meditations of sufferings and God’s justice into their Old Testament Books. Suffering can be seen in Job, but in the next essay and upcoming classes, we will be relating this to women suffering. The wisdom perspectives did not replace the other two major strands of thought in Ancient Israel, that of prophets and priests. It was simply a different focus that was complementary with the other perspectives presented in the Bible.

Wisdom,” revealed and natural theology. Revealed theology comes from such sources as the Bible and according to St. Thomas Aquinas