On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians Paperback - 1987
by Celsus; R. Joseph Hoffman
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It is not difficult to reconstruct the main lines in the development of early anti-Christian polemic from the writings preserved to us in the New Testament.
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Although the works of many early critics of the Church were burned by Christian emperors or were otherwise destroyed in the second and third centuries, the major work of the Greek philosopher, Celsus, is an exception. His polemical attack on the beliefs and practices of Christianity, On the True Doctrine, written around 178 A.D., is one of the earliest surviving documents of its kind. Preserved almost in its entirety within Contra Celsum, a counter-polemic written by Origen of Alexandria, On the True Doctrine provides an accurate portrait of the attitudes of most detached pagan observers of the time: interested in the latest religious trends, but suspicious of the religious enthusiasm and the newer proselytizing sects of the empire.
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- Title On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians
- Author Celsus; R. Joseph Hoffman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition NIS
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1987-02-19
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780195041514 / 0195041518
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.27 x 5.52 x 0.5 in (21.01 x 14.02 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Church history - Primitive and early church,, Rome - Religion
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86008619
- Dewey Decimal Code 230.13
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