Origen

Contra Celsum

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ID19949587
AuthorsOrigen Origen (corresponding author), Origen comm
EditorsHenry Chadwick
Year1980
Publication date1980-02-28
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueOrigen (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511555213
OpenAlexW2074322065
Open LibraryOL4215600M
ISBN9780511555213
LanguageEN
Citations received43

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

Art · Christianity · Culmination · Early Christianity · Faith · Identity (music) · Literature · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Philosophy · Alèthes logos (Celsus) · Apologetics · Celsus (fl. 180) · Celsus Platonic philosopher (fl. 180) · Celsus, Platonic philosopher, fl. 180 · Christendom · Christianity, early church, ca. 30-600 · Church history · Early church, ca. 30-600 · Early works to 1800 · Stream measurements

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