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Author : Orígenes
Release : 2001
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Contra Celsum by : Orígenes
Download or read book Contra Celsum written by Orígenes. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical edition of Origen's main and longest work "Contra Celsum."
Author : Origen
Release : 1980
Genre : Apologetics
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Book Synopsis Origen: Contra Celsum by : Origen
Download or read book Origen: Contra Celsum written by Origen. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. The Contra Celsum is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the second and third centuries AD, and is for the Greek Church what St Augustine's City of God is for Western Christendom. It is also one of the chief monuments of the coming together of ancient Greek culture and the new faith of the expanding Christian society. Thus Origen's work is of interest not only to the historian and theologian, but also to the hellenist. Professor Chadwick's English translation is preceded by a substantial introduction which includes discussion on Celsus' date, identity and theological outlook, as well as an account of Origen's philosophical background and method. The notes elucidate the many obscure allusions of a difficult text.
Author : Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Release : 1987
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Book Synopsis On the True Doctrine: a Discourse Against the Christians by : Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Download or read book On the True Doctrine: a Discourse Against the Christians written by Aulus Cornelius Celsus. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Origen
Release : 1660-01-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Origen Against Celsus (Complete) by : Origen
Download or read book Origen Against Celsus (Complete) written by Origen. This book was released on 1660-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Celsus
Release : 2017-04-14
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Book Synopsis A True Discourse by : Celsus
Download or read book A True Discourse written by Celsus. This book was released on 2017-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Christian father Origen, Celsus (/ˈsɛlsəs/; Greek: ΚέΛΣΟς. K�lsos) was a 2nd-century Greek philosopher and opponent of Early Christianity. He is known for his literary work, The True Word (also Account, Doctrine or Discourse; Greek: ΛόΓΟς ἈΛΗ&thΗής), which survives exclusively in Origen's quotations from it in Contra Celsum. This work, c. 177 is the earliest known comprehensive attack on Christianity.According to Origen, Celsus was the author of an anti-Christian work titled The True Word (Alēthēs logos). This work was lost, but we have Origen's account of it in his writings. It was during the reign of Philip the Arab that Origen received this work for rebuttal. Origen's refutation of The True Word contained its text, interwoven with Origen's replies. Origen's work has survived and thereby preserved Celsus' work with it.Celsus seems to have been interested in Ancient Egyptian religion, and he seemed to know of Hellenistic Jewish logos-theology, both of which suggest The True Word was composed in Alexandria. Celsus wrote at a time when Christianity purportedly was being persecuted and when there seems to have been more than one emperor.As an anti-Christian Greek philosopher, Celsus mounted an attack on Christianity. Celsus wrote that some Jews said Jesus' father was a Roman soldier named Pantera. The views of Celsus drew responses from Origen who considered it a fabricated story. Raymond E. Brown states that the story of Pantera is a fanciful explanation of the birth of Jesus which includes very little historical evidence--Brown's analysis does not presuppose the doctrine of the "virgin birth", but cites the lack of historical evidence for Celsus' assertion. In addition, Celsus addressed the miracles of Jesus, holding that "Jesus performed His miracles by sorcery (ΓΟΗΤΕίΑ)".
