Book contents
- Celsus in his World
- Celsus in his World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Of Scholarship, Piety and Community
- 2 Annotations on the Literary Structure of Celsus’ Alēthēs Logos
- 3 Celsus As Platonist Philosopher
- 4 Celsus’ Theology
- 5 Origen’s Celsus and Imperial Greek Religiosity
- 6 Celsus, or Philosophy and the Second Sophistic
- 7 Homer in Origen, Against Celsus
- 8 The Gospel according to Celsus
- 9 The Reception of the Alēthēs Logos
- 10 Celsus’ Judaism
- 11 The Multiple Personalities of Celsus’ Jew
- 12 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
1 - Of Scholarship, Piety and Community
Origen’s Purpose(s) in Contra Celsum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2021
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Book contents
- Celsus in his World
- Celsus in his World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Of Scholarship, Piety and Community
- 2 Annotations on the Literary Structure of Celsus’ Alēthēs Logos
- 3 Celsus As Platonist Philosopher
- 4 Celsus’ Theology
- 5 Origen’s Celsus and Imperial Greek Religiosity
- 6 Celsus, or Philosophy and the Second Sophistic
- 7 Homer in Origen, Against Celsus
- 8 The Gospel according to Celsus
- 9 The Reception of the Alēthēs Logos
- 10 Celsus’ Judaism
- 11 The Multiple Personalities of Celsus’ Jew
- 12 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
This essay considers the implied self-portrait of the Christian scholar that Origen offers in his response to Celsus. That self-portrait both shows the Christian scholar to be one whose panoply of skills should be recognized as the equal of the non-Christian scholar, and yet also the Christian scholar claims a place within a community of those – including the martyrs – who can only but seem irrational and quintessentially unscholarly to Celsus.
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- Celsus in his WorldPhilosophy, Polemic and Religion in the Second Century, pp. 36 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021