Author : Porphyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:661934426
Against the Christians
Porphyre
Porphyry Against The Christians
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Porphyry in Fragments
Ariane Magny
Author : Ariane Magny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317077794
Porphyry in Fragments by Ariane Magny Pdf
The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved: he composed (at the end the 3rd century A.D.) fifteen discourses against the Christians, so offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt. We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Scholars have long thought that we could rely on those testimonies to know Porphyry's ideas. Exploring early religious debates which still resonate today, Porphyry in Fragments argues instead that Porphyry's actual thoughts became mixed with the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as well as those of other Christian opponents.
Porphyry Against the Christians
Robert Berchman
Author : Robert Berchman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047415725
Porphyry Against the Christians by Robert Berchman Pdf
Porphyry's Against the Christians offers an important example of Hellenic Biblical criticism and a critique of Christianity at the close of Late Antiquity, fl. 300 C.E.
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
Robert Louis Wilken
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300098391
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken Pdf
This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
Porphyry's Against the Christians
R. Joseph Hoffman
Author : R. Joseph Hoffman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781615922000
Porphyry's Against the Christians by R. Joseph Hoffman Pdf
Prominent among the pagan critics of the early Christians was Porphyry of Trre (ca. 232-305), scholar, philosopher, and student of religions. His Against the Christians, condemned to be burned in 448, was a work of admirable historical criticism. The surviving fragments of this work, newly translated by Biblical scholar Hoffmann, present Porphyry's most trenchant comments on key figures, beliefs, and doctrines of Christianity.
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians
Thomas Taylor
Author : Thomas Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1647991498
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians by Thomas Taylor Pdf
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)
Against the Galilaeans
Juilan the Apostate
Author : Juilan the Apostate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1915645190
Against the Galilaeans by Juilan the Apostate Pdf
Against the Galileans (where "Galileans" meant the followers of the man from Galilee, or Christians) was written by the last pagan Emperor of Rome, Flavius Claudius Julianus, who lived from 331-363 AD, as part of his attempts to reverse the Empire's conversion to Christianity started by Emperor Constantine in 313 AD. This work was acknowledged by one of Julian's greatest critics, Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria, as one of the most powerful books of its sort ever written. Even though Cyril was Patriarch nearly 90 years after Julian's death, he was motivated to write a refutation titled Contra Iulianum ("Against Julian"). For more than 200 years, Julian's book remained the standard criticism of Christianity. Finally, in an attempt to suppress the work, the Emperor Justinian I (527-565) ordered all copies of the book destroyed. As a result, the only record of Julian's book remained in the parts quoted from in it in Cyril's criticism. It was only more than 1,200 years later that the English classical scholar Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) first translated Cyril's work into English-and from that, attempted a reconstruction of Julian's book based on Julian's quotes from Cyril's work. Taylor titled this manuscript "The Arguments of the Emperor Julian against the Christians, translated from the Greek fragments preserved from the Greek fragments preserved by Cyril Bishop of Alexandria, to which are added, Extracts from the other works of Julian relative to the Christians" and privately published his reconstruction in 1809 for a very limited circle of friends. Taylor's reconstruction was finally published for a larger audience by William Nevis in 1873. This new edition contains the full Taylor reconstruction, along with his original appendices. From 1913 to 1923, British-American classical philologist and Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, Wilmer Cave Wright, retranslated all of Julian's works. Wright included a new translation of the exact quotes only from Julian, as reproduced by Cyril, and some other remaining fragments. Wright's original manuscript is also included in this new edition, making it to be the most complete reconstruction of Julian's book ever printed.
Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity
Jeremy M. Schott
Author : Jeremy M. Schott
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812203462
Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity by Jeremy M. Schott Pdf
In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E. During this turbulent period, which began with Diocletian's persecution of the Christians and ended with Constantine's assumption of sole rule and the consolidation of a new Christian empire, Christian apologists and anti-Christian polemicists launched a number of literary salvos in a battle for the minds and souls of the empire. Schott focuses on the works of the Platonist philosopher and anti- Christian polemicist Porphyry of Tyre and his Christian respondents: the Latin rhetorician Lactantius, Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, and the emperor Constantine. Previous scholarship has tended to narrate the Christianization of the empire in terms of a new religion's penetration and conquest of classical culture and society. The present work, in contrast, seeks to suspend the static, essentializing conceptualizations of religious identity that lie behind many studies of social and political change in late antiquity in order to investigate the processes through which Christian and pagan identities were constructed. Drawing on the insights of postcolonial discourse analysis, Schott argues that the production of Christian identity and, in turn, the construction of a Christian imperial discourse were intimately and inseparably linked to the broader politics of Roman imperialism.
Against the Christians: Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian
Thomas Taylor,Flavius Josephus,Porphyry,Tacitus,Diodorus of Sicily,Celsus,Emperor Julian
Author : Thomas Taylor,Flavius Josephus,Porphyry,Tacitus,Diodorus of Sicily,Celsus,Emperor Julian
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547718895
Against the Christians: Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian by Thomas Taylor,Flavius Josephus,Porphyry,Tacitus,Diodorus of Sicily,Celsus,Emperor Julian Pdf
Against the Christians is a literary critique of Christianity. Its incisive remarks extend to key figures, philosophies, and dogmas. The divinity of Jesus is questioned, as is the truthfulness of the apostles and the Christian concept of God on a larger scale. It rejects the gospels as the work of frauds who attributed their own writings to late disciples of Jesus.
Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre
Aaron P. Johnson
Author : Aaron P. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012738
Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre by Aaron P. Johnson Pdf
Examines Porphyry of Tyre's critical engagement with Hellenism in late antiquity, emphasizing philosophical translation as the key to his thought.
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians
Cornelius Tacitus,Flavius Josephus,Emperor of Rome Julian,Siculus Diodorus,Porphyry,active 180 Celsus
Author : Cornelius Tacitus,Flavius Josephus,Emperor of Rome Julian,Siculus Diodorus,Porphyry,active 180 Celsus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547715634
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians by Cornelius Tacitus,Flavius Josephus,Emperor of Rome Julian,Siculus Diodorus,Porphyry,active 180 Celsus Pdf
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian Against the Christians is a series of essays by Flavius Josephus. They cover criticism of Christianity by people who lived during the days of Early Christianity.
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian Against the Christians
Celsus (Platonic philosopher),Porphyry,Julian (Emperor of Rome),Diodorus (Siculus.),Flavius Josephus,Cornelius Tacitus
Author : Celsus (Platonic philosopher),Porphyry,Julian (Emperor of Rome),Diodorus (Siculus.),Flavius Josephus,Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Christianity
ISBN : BL:A0018960013
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian Against the Christians by Celsus (Platonic philosopher),Porphyry,Julian (Emperor of Rome),Diodorus (Siculus.),Flavius Josephus,Cornelius Tacitus Pdf
Augustine and Porphyry
David C. DeMarco
Author : David C. DeMarco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3506760556
Augustine and Porphyry by David C. DeMarco Pdf
Porphyry in Fragments
Ariane Magny
Author : Ariane Magny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317077800
Porphyry in Fragments by Ariane Magny Pdf
The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved: he composed (at the end the 3rd century A.D.) fifteen discourses against the Christians, so offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt. We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Scholars have long thought that we could rely on those testimonies to know Porphyry's ideas. Exploring early religious debates which still resonate today, Porphyry in Fragments argues instead that Porphyry's actual thoughts became mixed with the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as well as those of other Christian opponents.
A Threat to Public Piety
Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
Author : Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801463969
A Threat to Public Piety by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser Pdf
In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303–313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire. Challenging the widely accepted view that the persecution enacted by Emperor Diocletian was largely inevitable, she points out that in the forty years leading up to the Great Persecution Christians lived largely in peace with their fellow Roman citizens. Why, Digeser asks, did pagans and Christians, who had intermingled cordially and productively for decades, become so sharply divided by the turn of the century? Making use of evidence that has only recently been dated to this period, Digeser shows that a falling out between Neoplatonist philosophers, specifically Iamblichus and Porphyry, lit the spark that fueled the Great Persecution. In the aftermath of this falling out, a group of influential pagan priests and philosophers began writing and speaking against Christians, urging them to forsake Jesus-worship and to rejoin traditional cults while Porphyry used his access to Diocletian to advocate persecution of Christians on the grounds that they were a source of impurity and impiety within the empire. The first book to explore in depth the intellectual social milieu of the late third century, A Threat to Public Piety revises our understanding of the period by revealing the extent to which Platonist philosophers (Ammonius, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus) and Christian theologians (Origen, Eusebius) came from a common educational tradition, often studying and teaching side by side in heterogeneous groups.
