Origen of Alexandria — Against Celsus, Book 5, Part 1 - Video

Origen of Alexandria — Against Celsus, Book 5, Part 1, in a fresh translation from the Via Patrum library (viapatrum.org).

0:00 Introduction
1:15 Against Celsus, Book 5, Part 1
68:00 Sign-off

Opening chant: Rorate Caeli, performed by Inritter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Against Celsus (Contra Celsum, c. 248) is Origen's masterpiece of Christian apologetics, written at the request of his patron Ambrose. Some seventy years earlier the pagan philosopher Celsus had published the True Doctrine, the most learned attack on Christianity of the ancient world. Origen answers it the honest way: he quotes Celsus at length, passage by passage, and replies to every charge — against the prophecies, the miracles, the resurrection, the morality of Christians and the worship of God. It is the fullest surviving record of the argument between the church and its cultured despisers. Read aloud in a fresh translation from the Via Patrum library, with sentence-by-sentence read-along.

Artwork: “OrigenStudentsLuyken” by Luyken, Jan — Public domain · Wikimedia Commons (title card and thumbnail).

Artwork: “OrigenStudentsLuyken” by Luyken, Jan — Public domain · Wikimedia Commons (title card and thumbnail).

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