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    • Celsus was a 2nd-century Greek Philosopher and opponent of early Christianity. His literary work, The True Word (also Account, Doctrine or Discourse; Greek: Hellenistic Greek: Λόγος Ἀληθής), survives exclusively in quotations from it in Contra Celsum, a refutation written in 248 by Origen of Alexandria. The True Word is the earliest known … See more

    Philosophy

    All that is known about Celsus himself comes from the surviving text of his book and from what Origen says about him. … See more

    Work

    Celsus was the author of a work titled The True Word (Logos Alēthēs). The argument was contested by the contemporary Christian community and the book was eventually banned in 448 AD by order of Valentinian IIISee more

    Sources

    • Nixey, Catherine (2017). The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. London, UK: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-5098-1606-4.
    • Hanegraaff, Wouter (2012). Esotericism and the Academy: … See more

    Further reading

    Theodor Keim, Gegen die Christen. (1873) [Celsus' wahres Wort], Reprint Matthes & Seitz, München 1991 (ISBN 3-88221-350-7)
    • Pélagaud, Etude sur Celse (1878)
    • K. J. Neumann's edition in Scriptores Graeci qui Christiana… See more

    External links

    "Celsus the Platonist" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. 1908.
    Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Celsus" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 609–611.… See more

     
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