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- Title: Against the Christians
- Author : Jeffrey W. Hargis
- Release Date : January 08, 2001
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1061 KB
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‘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.