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For Camus, the great novelty of Christianity is not faith because faith only shields Christian beliefs from criticism but rather the Christian notion of apocalyptic history and a final redemption in the afterlife. This belief in the apocalypse expresses a tragic sensibility in which the Christian embraces his or her mortality in the hope of …

  Much of Boethius' work The Consolation of Philosophy speaks of luck, or Fortuna.  However, as The Consolation of Philosophy continues, the reader is brought to Boethius' inevitable conclusion.  That it is self-examination that provides humans with lasting happiness.  The Consolation of Philosophy is not necessarily a Christian work or just about suffering but, instead, the power …