blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. (Phil 1:9–11)76 The New Testament provides us with an important illustration of what I am referring to as a thick conception of moral living in the writings of Paul, particularly in the use Paul makes of the term aisthesis (translated “insight”) in Phil 1:9 as a practical extension of epignosis (“knowledge”).77 Early in Paul’s thanksgiving to God for what has been
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