Would, indeed, that all that is said by Celsus against the Christians was of such a nature as to be refuted by the multitude, who have ascertained by experience that such things are untrue, seeing that most of them have lived as neighbours with the Christians, and have not even heard of the existence of any such alleged practices! All the issues involved are still highly relevant. Publication Date - February 1987. On the True Doctrine A Discourse Against the Christians Celsus Translated by R. Joseph Hoffman. Kelszosz 2. században, kb. Twitter . When it was time for Mary to give birth she and her husband set off to have God’s son. An eclectic Platonist and polemical writer against Christianity, who flourished towards the end of the second century. Introduction to the Chinese Edition (English Text) Celsus's late second century "On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians," is one of the most remarkable and thorough-going arguments ever written against the core beliefs and practices of Christianity, ancient or modern. Celsus's tract `On the True Doctrine - A Discourse Against the Christians' could be partly recovered from the treatise by Origin of Alexandria `Contra Celsum'. Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. Dieses Werk in altgriechischer Sprache ist nur fragmentarisch überliefert. Embed. A Discourse Against the Christians. XLI. deadly battle against the Prince of this world. 57 The excellent reconstruction and translation, together with a perfect introduction, by R. Joseph Hoffmann, reads like a modern text. Like all quacks they gather a crowd of slaves, children, women and idlers. References. Celsus: On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians. A catalogue will give an idea of the range of vilification that Celsus deploys around his central and essential vermicular trope. - Volume 57 Issue 3 Celsus (1987), On The True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians, translated by Hoffman, R. Joseph, Oxford University Press: New York Celsus (2001), Fragments from Celsus’ lost True Discourse, archived from the original on 27 April 2006 Baltes, Matthias (Münster), "Celsus, [I]", in Hubert Cancik; Helmuth Schneider (eds. Celsus does not indeed repeat the Thyestean charges so frequently brought against Christians by their calumniators, but he says the Christian teachers who are mainly weavers and cobblers have no power over men of education. His work as a whole has been lost, but when the third century theologian Origen sought to answer Celsus' charges in a work appropriately called Against Celsus , he preserved most of Celsus' criticisms. Christianity with Edict of Milan (313), converts to Christianity (324), convenes the first ecumenical Council in 325 to resolve the Arian controversy over the deity of Jesus Christ. The first point in Celsus’ argument against the biblical truth is the origin of the Jewish people and Christian faith. 2 idolatry and refused to do it. For a time the law provided an exemption for the Jews, and since in the early days the Romans saw Christianity as a sect of the Jews the new faith enjoyed the same exemption. The qualifications for conversion are ignorance and childish timidity. Celsus gives them the name of Sibyllists**, because the Christians in their disputes with the heathens sometimes made use of the authority of Sibylla their own prophetess against them; whose writing they urged with so much advantage to the Christian cause, and prejudice to the heathen, that Justin Martyr*** says, the Roman governors made it death for any one to read them, or Hystaspes, or … AbeBooks.com: On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians (9780195041507) by Celsus and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Pinterest. Aus der Sicht der platonischen Tradition, der er angehörte, verfasste Kelsos die Wahre Lehre, die älteste bekannte Streitschrift gegen das Christentum. 178 körül élt élt görög gondolkodó, aki kétségbe vonta a kereszténység és a Biblia állításait.. Kelszosz Hadrianus császár kortársa, Órigenész állítása szerint epikureus filozófus volt.. 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