Origen Contra Celsum

Name: Origen Contra Celsum
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ISBN: 9780521295765

ISBN-10: 0521295769

ISBN-13: 9780521295765

Edition: 1980

Authors: Henry Chadwick, Origen

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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 A.D., 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 preceeded by a substantial…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/28/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 572
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 2.310
Language: English



Introduction



Philosophical background



Date of the contra Celsum



Celsus' theology



The reconstruction of Celsus' text



The identity and date of Celsus



Manuscripts, editions and translations


Abbreviations


Bibliography


Appendix


General index


Index of classical authors


Index of biblical passages