TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jeffrey W. Hargis
PY  - 1999
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453910115
TI  - Against the Christians
T2  - The Rise of Early Anti-Christian Polemic- Second Printing
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1011-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054395
N2  - 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.
KW  - Porphyry, Celsus, Julian the Apostate
LA  - English
ER  -