| Heresy and Criticism: The Search for Authenticity in Early Christian Literature Contributor(s): Grant, Robert M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0664221688 ISBN-13: 9780664221683 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christianity - Literature & The Arts - Religion | Christian Theology - Christology |
| Dewey: 273.1 |
| LCCN: 92020017 |
| Lexile Measure: 1530 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.05" W x 9.05" (0.71 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 literacy criticism 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 principal figures Origen, Dionysius of Alexandria, Eusebius, and Jerome. |
Contributor Bio(s): Grant, Robert M.: - 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. |