Franken, Chris2012-09-102012-09-102012-07-16Franken, C., 2012, ‘Paulus se hantering van eksterne stressors, en die verhouding tussen identiteit, etiek en etos in Filippense’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 68(1), Art. #1148, 11 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v68i1.11480259--9422 (Print)2072-8050 (Online)10.4102/hts.v68i1.1148http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19726Dr Chris Franken is a doctoral candidate and a research associate of Prof. Dr Kobus Kok in the department New Testament at the University of Pretoria. This article resulted from the student’s doctoral thesis that he successfully completed at the University of Pretoria in 2011.Stress is one of the most prominent sicknesses of the third millennium. This article used the external categories of stress and the heuristic ethical indicators (identity, ethics and ethos) to determine why Paul lived with joy despite of his stressful circumstances. As for people sharing the same Christian identity of the first followers of Jesus, this should be of real significance to the situation of stress in the third millennium.Afrikaans© 2012. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.PaulusArticle