Athens and Jerusalem
ISBN: 9789004536135
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL
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The present study, for the first time, provides a comparative analysis of the objections raised against Christianity by late antique pagan philosophers (esp. Celsus in Alethes logos , Porphyry in Contra Christianos , and Julian the Apostate in Contra Gali-laeos ) and Enlightenment philosophers and freethinkers and examines the impact of pagan thinking on the critique of Christianity in the 16th to 18th centuries - in particular, on discussions concerning the authority of the Bible, biblical exegesis, the Christian concept of faith, religious coercion and the uniformity of faith, the belief in miracles, and the Christ-ian understanding of morality.


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