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- Porphyry's trenchant comments extend to key figures, beliefs, and doctrines of Christianity as he roundly attacks the divinity of Jesus, the integrity of the apostles, the Christian concept of God, and the Resurrection. Porphyry dismisses the gospels as the work of charlatans and Jesus himself as a criminal and failure.
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Published. c. 275–300 AD. Against the Christians ( Greek: Κατὰ Χριστιανῶν; Adversus Christianos) is a late 3rd-century book written by Roman-Phoenician Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry of Tyre, attacking the writings of Christian philosophers and theologians.
- c. 275-300 AD
- Greek
Porphyry of Tyre (/ ˈ p ɔːr f ɪr i /; Greek: Πορφύριος, Porphýrios; c. 234 – c. AD 305) was a Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia during Roman rule. [a] [1] [2] He edited and published The Enneads , the only collection of the work of Plotinus , his teacher.
An English version 6 With assistance from a passage from one of his earliest works, “On the Philosophy Derived from Oracles”, a section in which praise was given to Jesus for his piety and blame to his disciples for honoring him as a god, a case was built up for Porphyry as a liberal religious thinker, intent upon purging Christianity of ...
Feb 18, 2005 · Porphyry wrote in just about every branch of learning practiced at the time but only a portion of his large output is extant. Porphyry was an influential thinker. He applied Neoplatonism to pagan religion and other spheres and is, as such, a key figure in the promulgation of Neoplatonic thought.
it may reveal the practical position of a Neoplatonic philosopher. The question, however, remains whether that philosopher must needs be Porphyry. The whole argument is summed up at the end of the book by means of eleven propositions, and the conclusion drawn from them is that the objector is Porphyry.
Against the Christians. work by Porphyry. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Porphyry. Surviving fragments of his Against the Christians, which was condemned in 448 to be burned, marked him as a fierce critic of the new religion.
Later (22.27) Augustine argues that a combination of Plato. and Porphyry would produce Christian doctrine on the resurrection of the body: Plato knows that the purified souls of the just will return to human bodies, and Porphyry knows. that purified souls will never return to the corruptible body.
