Celsus In His World

Author : James Carleton Paget
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110883244X
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celsus in his World written by James Carleton Paget and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a scholarly yet accessible manner, this book brings together classicists, experts in ancient Judaism and scholars in early Christianity, to discuss the neglected Greek philosopher Celsus, whose concerns touch upon a range of significant subjects in late antiquity.

Author : James Carleton Paget
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108962769
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celsus in his World written by James Carleton Paget and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celsus penned the earliest known detailed attack upon Christianity. While his identity is disputed and his anti-Christian treatise, entitled the True Word, has been exclusively transmitted through the hands of the great Christian scholar Origen, he remains an intriguing figure. In this interdisciplinary volume, which brings together ancient philosophers, specialists in Greek literature, and historians of early Christianity and of ancient Judaism, Celsus is situated within the cultural, philosophical, religious and political world from which he emerged. While his work is ostensibly an attack upon Christianity, it is also the defence of a world in which Celsus passionately believed. It is the unique contribution of this volume to give voice to the many dimensions of that world in a way that will engage a variety of scholars interested in late antiquity and the histories of Christianity, Judaism and Greek thought.

Author : Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book On the True Doctrine: a Discourse Against the Christians written by Aulus Cornelius Celsus and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Origen
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465530371
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origen Against Celsus (Complete) written by Origen and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1660-01-01 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300098396
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christians as the Romans Saw Them written by Robert Louis Wilken and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141914866
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hippocratic Writings written by Hippocrates and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of embryology and a brief anatomical description of the heart.

Author : Orígenes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004119765
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contra Celsum written by Orígenes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical edition of Origen's main and longest work "Contra Celsum."

Author : Celsus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521069066
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A True Discourse written by Celsus and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 89 pages. 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)".

Author : Catherine Nixey
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544800931
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darkening Age written by Catherine Nixey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith." Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.

Author : Thomas Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647991500
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians written by Thomas Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Taylor (15 May 1758 - 1 November 1835) was an English translator and Neoplatonist, the first to translate into English the complete works of Aristotle and of Plato, as well as the Orphic fragments. Thomas Taylor was born in the City of London on 15 May 1758, the son of a staymaker Joseph Taylor and his wife Mary (born Summers). He was educated at St. Paul's School, and devoted himself to the study of the classics and of mathematics. After first working as a clerk in Lubbock's Bank, he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Society for the Encouragement of Art (precursor to the Royal Society of Arts), in which capacity he made many influential friends, who furnished the means for publishing his various translations, which besides Plato and Aristotle, include Proclus, Porphyry, Apuleius, Ocellus Lucanus and other Neoplatonists and Pythagoreans. His aim was the translation of all the untranslated writings of the ancient Greek philosophers. Taylor was an admirer of Hellenism, most especially in the philosophical framework furnished by Plato and the Neoplatonists Proclus and the "most divine" Iamblichus, whose works he translated into English. So enamoured was he of the ancients, that he and his wife talked to one another only in classical Greek. He was also an outspoken voice against corruption in the Christianity of his day, and what he viewed as its shallowness. Taylor was ridiculed and acquired many enemies, but in other quarters he was well received. Among his friends was the eccentric traveller and philosopher John "Walking" Stewart, whose gatherings Taylor was in the habit of attending. Taylor also published several original works on philosophy (in particular, the Neoplatonism of Proclus and Iamblichus) and mathematics. These works have been republished (some for the first time since Taylor's lifetime) by the Prometheus Trust. (wikipedia.org)