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Against the Christians

Author : Porphyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:661934426

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Porphyry in Fragments

Author : Ariane Magny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317077794

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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.

The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300098391

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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 Against the Christians

Author : Robert Berchman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047415725

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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.

Porphyry's Against the Christians

Author : R. Joseph Hoffman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781615922000

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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.

Against the Galilaeans

Author : Juilan the Apostate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1915645190

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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.

Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians

Author : Thomas Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1647991498

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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 Christians: Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian

Author : Thomas Taylor,Flavius Josephus,Porphyry,Tacitus,Diodorus of Sicily,Celsus,Emperor Julian
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547718895

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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

Author : Aaron P. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012738

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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

Author : Cornelius Tacitus,Flavius Josephus,Emperor of Rome Julian,Siculus Diodorus,Porphyry,active 180 Celsus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547715634

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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.

Augustine and Porphyry

Author : David C. DeMarco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3506760556

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Porphyry in Fragments

Author : Ariane Magny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317077800

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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.

Against the Christians

Author : Jeffrey W. Hargis
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0820457418

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<I>Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian literature in depth, it chooses the critics' objection to Christian exclusivism as its starting point. The evolution in the polemic, from a rhetoric of radical distinction to one of -rhetorical assimilation, - reveals a sophisticated attempt to expose contradictions and inconsistencies within Christianity, while at the same time reflecting the process of fusion between Christianity and the culture of late antiquity."

A Threat to Public Piety

Author : Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801463969

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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.

Arguments Against the Christians: Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian

Author : Diodorus of Sicily,Flavius Josephus,Tacitus,Celsus,Emperor Julian,Porphyry,Thomas Taylor
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:4064066393854

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Arguments Against the Christians: Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian by Diodorus of Sicily,Flavius Josephus,Tacitus,Celsus,Emperor Julian,Porphyry,Thomas Taylor Pdf

Arguments 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.