"In diesem Band werden die interreligiösen Konflikte des 4. und 5. Jh. ausgehend von der Replik Contra Iulianum des Patriarchen von Alexandria, Kyrill, auf die antichristliche Schrift Contra Galilaeos des letzten heidnischen Kaisers Julian in den Blick genommen. Ein Schwerpunkt …
The author sets out to demolish what he considers the most widespread and destructive of all th emyths devised by man, the concept of a supreme being. With painstaking scholarship and rigorous arguments, he examines, dissects and refutes the myriad "proofs" offered by theists --…
"Does a god exist? This question has undoubtedly been asked, in one form or another, since man has had the ability to communicate. . . Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of a god, and the vast majority have answered the questions with a resounding 'Yes!' " "Yo…
The author sets out to demolish what he considers the most widespread and destructive of all th emyths devised by man, the concept of a supreme being. With painstaking scholarship and rigorous arguments, he examines, dissects and refutes the myriad "proofs" offered by theists --…
"Hundert Jahre nach Adolf von Harnacks 1916 erchienener Erstkompilation von Porphyrios' Contra Christianos wird hiermit eine neue Sammlung der Fragmente, Testimonien und Dubia mit Einleitung, erster deutscher Übersetzung un Anmerkungen vorgelegt."--"Vorwort", p. [v].
A hundred years after Adolf von Harnack's first edition of Porphyry's Contra Christianos (1916) this work presents a new collection of the fragments and testimonia with an introduction, a German translation and notes. It is the first German translation of and commentary on Contr…