Origen the Sophist: Anti-Sophistic Polemic in Porphyry's "Contra Christianos"
Making use of Beatrice Wyss' "pattern of the disparagement of sophists" for heuristic purposes, this paper argues that the depictions of Christian exegetes and scholars in a fragment of Porphyry's lost work Contra Christianos (fr. 39 Harnack/fr. 6F. Becker) contain literary eleme...
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07 May 2019
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Vigiliae Christianae
Year: 2019, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-173 |
| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity VA Philosophy |
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Porphyry
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