In Contra Celsum however, Origen is remarkably restrained in this use of allegory. One passage not in Contra Celsum but in De principiis () demonstrates rather forcefully how when a particular doctrine is in question, allegory is generally not a resource. Origen is faced with a problem in Rom , where Paul quotes Malachi, "Jacob I loved. 7 Bart D. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exit (New York: HarperOne, ), 8 Contra Celsum, 9 Contra Celsum , 10 Contra Celsum 11 In each case Origen gives the impression that he is referring to the Antiquities, but the arguments in the “two books” referred appear in the two books of . 3 Origen: Contra Celsum. Translated with an introduction and notes (Cambridge, ); with a prefatory note reprinted Chadwick indicates by italics the quota-tions which, according to him, are Celsus' own words. 4 I follow Chadwick's translation, unless stated otherwise.
Against Celsus Contra Celsum. This is Origen's great apologetical work, undertaken in answer to the attack on Christianity by the pagan philosopher Celsus. The text that Origen composed to refute Celsus's self-styled "True Discourse" consists of eight books, and belongs to the latest years of his life. It has always been regarded as the great. Contra Celsum by Origen, unknown edition, Contra Celsum. First published in Subjects Early works to , Apologetics, Theology, History, Stream measurements, Alèthes logos (Celsus), Christendom, Church history, Christianity, early church, ca. People Celsus Platonic philosopher. Origen s Contra Celsum Book Description: Presented here for the first time in years is Selwyn's edition to the Greek text of the first four books of Origen's 'Contra Celsum', the culmination of the apologetic movement of the second and third centuries and one of the great works of the early Eastern Church.
Origen's Contra Celsus is the greatest apologetics work in the history of the early church. Origen wrote it as a response to the book written by the Roman skeptic Celsus. The work quotes directly from Celsus's "Against Christians," and Origen successfully rebuts Celsus's attack on Christianity. The book itself is inexpensive and the text is. Contra Celsum. Against Celsus (Greek: Κατὰ Κέλσου Kata Kelsou; Latin: Contra Celsum), preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a pagan philosopher and controversialist who had written a scathing attack on. Share. Book description. 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 AD, and is for the Greek Church what St.
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