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
6 - Celsus, or Philosophy and the Second Sophistic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2021
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
Because he stages the contest between the views he endorses and Christianity as a major battle of cultures, Celsus’ mode of discourse shows significant similarities with the register commonly attributed to the Second Sophistic. For the same reason his identity as a philosopher emerges only in the course of Origen’s rebuttal.
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- Celsus in his WorldPhilosophy, Polemic and Religion in the Second Century, pp. 187 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021