(window.AmazonUIPageJS ? Origen (185-254) was an early Alexandrian scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished writers of the early Church. It is also one of the chief monuments of the coming together of ancient Greek culture and the new faith of the expanding Christian society. Two outstanding editions - by Paul Koetschau (1899) and Marcel Borret (1967-1969) - … {"deviceType":"mobile"} AmazonUIPageJS : P).load.js('https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31z7LN3-CsL.js?AUIClients/DetailPageMediaMatrixFullBottomSheetAssets'); 1899: Paul Koetschau) } The Contra Celsum is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the second and third centuries AD, and is for the Greek Church what St Augustine's City of God is for Western Christendom. Amazon has encountered an error. In the excerpts that follow, Celsus' words are highlighted for easy of reading. Thus Origen's work is of interest not only to the historian and theologian, but also to the hellenist. }); Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. Download full Origen Contra Celcus Book or read online anytime anywhere, Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle. Please use a different way to share. Codex Parisinus Graecus 456; References ^ In Contra Celsum (Against Celsus), Origen produced a detailed, powerfully intellectual defense of Christianity, one of the first and best of the early church era. 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