Heresy and Criticism: The Search for Authenticity in Early Christian Literature

Grant, Robert McQueen

ISBN 10: 0664219713 / ISBN 13: 9780664219710

Published by Westminster John Knox Pr, 1993

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Synopsis:

Robert Grant draws upon his fifty years of experience dealing with the correlation of early Christianity and classical culture to demonstrate that Christian "heretics" were the first to apply literary cfiticism to Christian books. He shows that the heretics' methods were the same as those of pagan contemporaries, and that literary criticism derived from the Hellenistic schools. Literary criticism was later used by famous orthodox leaders, and, as time passed, orthodox critics increasingly found that these methods could serve them well. Grant supports his argument by focusing on such principal figures as Origen, Dionysius of Alexandria, Eusebius, and Jerome.

About the Author: Robert M. Grant is Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School in Chicago, Illinois. He is a renowned authority on the history of early Christianity.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Heresy and Criticism: The Search for ...
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good