An excerpt from a Porphyry tract against Christian irrationalism, as preserved by Eusebius. Here is Porphyry, a leading "Neoplatonist" attacking Christian unreason as reported by Eusebius. These things are said by Porphyry in the third book of his work against the Christians.
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These things are said by Porphyry in the third book of his work against the Christians. He speaks truly of the industry and learning of the man,
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Amazon.com: Porphyry's Against the Christians: The Literary Remains (9780879758899): Porphyry, R. Joseph Hoffmann: Books.
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This passage that impious man Porphyry, who wrote against us and vomited out his madness in many books, discusses in his 14th book and says: 'The evangelists were such unskilled men, not only in worldly matters, but also in the divine scriptures, that they attributed the testimony, which had been written elsewhere,
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Porphyry Against the Christians -- fragments (Note to the Reader: Porphyry's 'Against the Christians' is a lost work, but fragments survive embedded in Macarius Magnes' refutation and elsewhere. This text is an edited version of David Braunsberg and Roger Pearse's reconstruction available at tertullian.org.
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The 16-book work by the Neoplatonist Porphyry Against the Christians is lost. Constantine ordered that all copies should be destroyed1; 4. T. D. BARNES, Porphyry Against the Christians: Date and the Attribution of the Fragments, Journal of Theological Studies New Series 24 (1973), pp. 424-442. I have a copy of...
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Introduction to Porphyry Against the Christians Robert M. Berchman, Porphyry Against the Christians. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 1. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 243. ISBN 90-04-14811-6. €129.00. A review at BMCR by Thomas J. Kraus is online...
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Porphyry: Kata christianon (against the Christians, c280-290 AD The philosopher Porphyry (c232-c303 AD) was a leading neo-Platonist who succeeded Plotinus as leader of that philosophical school. These things are said by Porphyry in the third book of his work against the Christians.
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Obviously, the material Hoffmann brought together in this volume represent mere fragments of the original 15 books Porphyry composed against the Christians (all copies of the original work were ordered burned by the Church in 448). It is nonetheless interesting to read Porphyry's extant criticisms of the...
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