 The result of Lipsius’s repackaging of Stoic apatheia (emotionlessness) as an appropriate antidote to the religious and political passions of his day and of his transformation of Stoic fate into Christian divine providence (by subordinating fate to God instead of vice versa) was that his brand of Neostoicism became as suitable for Christians as the Aristotelianism of Thomas Aquinas and the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino.