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Of Scholarship, Piety, and Community: Origen's Purpose(s) in Contra Celsum

Ayres, Lewis

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James Carleton Paget
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Simon Gathercole
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Abstract

This essay considers the implied self-portrait of the Christian scholar that Origen offers in his response to Celsus. That self-portrait both shows the Christian scholar to be one whose panoply of skills should be recognized as the equal of the non-Christian scholar, and yet also the Christian scholar claims a place within a community of those – including the martyrs – who can only but seem irrational and quintessentially unscholarly to Celsus.

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Ayres, L. (2021). Of Scholarship, Piety, and Community: Origen's Purpose(s) in Contra Celsum. In J. Carleton Paget, & S. Gathercole (Eds.), Celsus in His World: Philosophy, Polemic and Religion in the Second Century (36-68). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108957861.003

Online Publication Date Nov 18, 2021
Publication Date 2021-11
Deposit Date Oct 15, 2021
Publicly Available Date Oct 15, 2021
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 36-68
Book Title Celsus in His World: Philosophy, Polemic and Religion in the Second Century
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108957861.003

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