%0 Book
%A Jeffrey W. Hargis
%D 1999
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781453910115
%T Against the Christians
%B The Rise of Early Anti-Christian Polemic- Second Printing
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-1011-5
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054395
%X Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian literature in depth, it chooses the critics' objection to Christian exclusivism as its starting point. The evolution in the polemic, from a rhetoric of radical distinction to one of «rhetorical assimilation,» reveals a sophisticated attempt to expose contradictions and inconsistencies within Christianity, while at the same time reflecting the process of fusion between Christianity and the culture of late antiquity.
%K Porphyry, Celsus, Julian the Apostate
%G English