Dan John on Strength Standards (Most) Everyone Should Hit 

My (admittedly terse) response is whatever you find in Stoic thought you can find better articulated and/or corrected in Christian thought. This is not a mark against Stoicism, however, because many of the greatest Christian thinkers (including St. Thomas) borrow and build upon the Stoics which preceded them. So, there is a process of development and (I would argue) refinement and assimilation. Further, if you take Christian revelation seriously, then to the extent Stoicism does not account for that, it will be severely lacking, incomplete at best. So, you are right to say there are incompatible aspects, such that anybody who wishes to provide a seamless synthesis of the two is engaging an impossible or dishonest project. What’s more, Stoicism is itself disparate, as different Stoics believed different things, metaphysically and ethically. This makes making comparisons difficult; really, you must take it thinker by thinker. For example, some Stoics were pantheists (or possibly panentheists), others polytheists (it would seem, anyway), and others still monotheistic. Undoubtedly, there is a common theme of theism, as many prominent Stoic thinkers - Seneca and Epicetus, for example - had strong beliefs and senses of God. They just didn’t have a very well-developed natural theology. (On the ethical side, natural law, which was strongly taken up by Christian thinkers, has roots in Stoicism, as well, though there are points of divergence here and there.) Anyway, you might want to check out the work of Dr. Kevin Vost. He was an atheist who, by studying and benefiting from Stoicism, eventually converted to Christianity. He has a couple books comparing the two.

I learn so much from you guys! Looking forward to the swing session.