Single Idea 1867

[catalogued under 29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity]

Full Idea

Christians put forth this Jesus not only as the son of God, but as the very Logos - not the pure and holy Logos known to the philosophers, but a new kind of Logos.

Gist of Idea

Christians presented Jesus as a new kind of logos to oppose that of the philosophers

Source

Celsus (On the True Doctrine (Against Christians) [c.178], III)

Book Reference

Celsus: 'On the True Doctrine (Against the Christians)', ed/tr. Hoffmann,R.Joseph [OUP 1987], p.64