the search for authenticity in early Christian literature /
First Statement of Responsibility
Robert M. Grant.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Louisville, Ky. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Westminster/J. Knox Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c1993.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 180 p. ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-172) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Authenticity and Heresy in Early Christianity -- 2. Literary Criticism in Early Christian Times -- 3. Marcion's Criticism of Gospel and Apostle -- 4. The Hidden Agenda of Ptolemaeus -- 5. Galen's Literary and Logical Criticism -- 6. The Syllogistic Exegesis of Apelles -- 7. The Orthodox Counterattack.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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critics increasingly found that these methods could serve them well. Grant supports his argument by focusing on such principal figures as Origen, Dionysius of Alexandria, Eusebius, and Jerome.
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Robert Grant draws upon his fifty years of experience dealing with the correlation of early Christianity and classical culture to demonstrate that Christian "heretics" were the first to apply literary cfiticism to Christian books. He shows that the heretics' methods were the same as those of pagan contemporaries, and that literary criticism derived from the Hellenistic schools. Literary criticism was later used by famous orthodox leaders, and, as time passed, orthodox.
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Title
Heresy and criticism.
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Bible-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Christian heresies-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600.