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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• DALE B. MARTIN

Titel

Origen and the Defense of Christianity

Ist Teil von

• Inventing Superstition, 2009, p.160

Ort / Verlag

Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Origen has long been hailed as one of early Christianity’s most brilliant and learned intellectuals. He lived from about 184 to about 254 CE, working mostly as a Christian teacher and scholar. Educated in Alexandria in ancient philosophy as well as Christian literature and theology, he lived much of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, writing great works of biblical commentary, theology, and Christian instruction.¹ His defense of Christianity against Celsus, known simply as the Contra Celsum (Against Celsus), was a strong, subtle, and sophisticated apology for Christianity in the ancient world, even if it may sound less convincing for