Book contents
- Celsus in his World
- Celsus in his World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Of Scholarship, Piety and Community
- 2 Annotations on the Literary Structure of Celsus’ Alēthēs Logos
- 3 Celsus As Platonist Philosopher
- 4 Celsus’ Theology
- 5 Origen’s Celsus and Imperial Greek Religiosity
- 6 Celsus, or Philosophy and the Second Sophistic
- 7 Homer in Origen, Against Celsus
- 8 The Gospel according to Celsus
- 9 The Reception of the Alēthēs Logos
- 10 Celsus’ Judaism
- 11 The Multiple Personalities of Celsus’ Jew
- 12 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
5 - Origen’s Celsus and Imperial Greek Religiosity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2021
Book contents
- Celsus in his World
- Celsus in his World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Of Scholarship, Piety and Community
- 2 Annotations on the Literary Structure of Celsus’ Alēthēs Logos
- 3 Celsus As Platonist Philosopher
- 4 Celsus’ Theology
- 5 Origen’s Celsus and Imperial Greek Religiosity
- 6 Celsus, or Philosophy and the Second Sophistic
- 7 Homer in Origen, Against Celsus
- 8 The Gospel according to Celsus
- 9 The Reception of the Alēthēs Logos
- 10 Celsus’ Judaism
- 11 The Multiple Personalities of Celsus’ Jew
- 12 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Celsus is important evidence for Middle Platonist thought over the nature of the demiurge. This paper argues that he identified the demiurge with an impersonal first principle, the form of the good. In showing how the evidence for Celsus helps to explain the metaphysics at work in this model, it aims to remove doubt that it is a model widely shared by other Platonists.
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- Celsus in his WorldPhilosophy, Polemic and Religion in the Second Century, pp. 149 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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