The Library of Celsus at Ephesus at night; with searing summer heat, an evening visit is more appealing to many tourists Photo: Merih Salmaz The marble façade of the 1,900-year-old Library of Celsus ...
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If you thought your local library was a shambles, take a look at Celsus Library in western Turkey. The restored façade, captured by Times reader “Kingdavid77,” encompasses much of what remains of the ...
Both Celsus the friend of Lucian and Celsus the author of The True Word evidently shared a passionate zeal against superstitio, making it easy to see how Origen could have concluded that they were the same person.
Celsus on Early Christian Writings: the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Church Fathers: information and translations of Gospels, Epistles, and documents of early Christianity.
The 2nd-century pagan philosopher Celsus is less dogmatic in his attacks on Christianity: the Christian miracles are insufficiently attested and most improbable, but, even if they were genuine, they could hardly offset the miracles of the pagan world—e.g., the healings of Asclepius.
Celsus was a Greek writer in the second century who criticized Christianity as a threat to the stable communities and worldview that the "pagan" religious and social system sought to uphold.
Celsus, a 2nd-century Platonist philosopher, stands as one of the most prominent critics of early Christianity. His treatise, The True Doctrine (Ἀληθὴς Λόγος), written around 177 CE, offers a thorough critique of Christian beliefs, practices, and origins.