TY - BOOK ID - 101466713 TI - The sources of Celsus's criticism of Jesus : theological developments in the Second Century AD AU - Tijsseling, Egge AU - Peeters PY - 2022 SN - 9789042946774 9042946776 9789042946781 9042946784 PB - Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters DB - UniCat KW - Christianity KW - Platonists KW - Church history KW - 1 <38> CELSUS KW - 1 <38> CELSUS Griekse filosofie--CELSUS KW - Griekse filosofie--CELSUS KW - Apostolic Church KW - Church, Apostolic KW - Early Christianity KW - Early church KW - Primitive and early church KW - Primitive Christianity KW - Fathers of the church KW - Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) KW - Platonism KW - Philosophers KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Controversial literature KW - Celsus KW - Celso KW - Celsus, KW - Kelsos KW - KĚŁelsus, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101466713 AB - This book is about what Celsus wrote about Jesus in the Second Century, what Celsus's image of God was like, and especially where Celsus found the ammunition to criticize Jesus so fiercely. Why did Christianity's growth bother a pagan philosopher, who was committed to Roman religion? Why did it bother a Platonic philosopher, although Christianity was never meant to be a philosophy? Egge Tijsseling explores the idea that Christians finished the Roman Empire, because they did not want to join the army - Jesus preached nonviolence, and if they did join the army, they only recruited more Christians, and finally because Christianity was 'soft', and therefore attractive for many in the strict and hierarchic Roman world. This book investigates Celsus' reasons to write such a versatile book against Jesus, that Origen almost a century later needed eight books to refute him. ER -