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Porphyry in Fragments: Reception of an Anti-Christian Text in Late Antiquity

Porphyry in Fragments: Reception of an Anti-Christian Text in Late Antiquity

Magny, Ariane

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity

PhilosophyReligion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 1409441156
ISBN13: 9781409441151
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 28 2014
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved: he composed fifteen discourses against the Christians, so offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt. We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Porphyry in Fragments argues that Porphyry's actual thoughts became mixed with the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as well as those of other Christian opponents.

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