REL 215RS: Who Would Jesus Kill? Religious Ethics of War and Peace: Module 3

Module 3 - Pacifism

Tertullian - On Idolatry 17-19
Translated by S. Thelwall. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Christian Literature Publishing Co.,1885.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight .

Origen - Against Celsus (Contra Celsum 2.30 & 8.73-75)
Translated by Frederick Crombie. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 4. Edited by Alexander
Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature
Publishing Co., 1885.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight.

Origen by Henry Chadwick (Edited and Translated by); Origen
ISBN: 9780521058667
Publication Date: 1980-02-28
Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. The Contra Celsum is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the second and third centuries AD, and is for the Greek Church what St Augustine's City of God is for Western Christendom. It is also one of the chief monuments of the coming together of ancient Greek culture and the new faith of the expanding Christian society. Thus Origen's work is of interest not only to the historian and theologian, but also to the hellenist. Professor Chadwick's English translation is preceded by a substantial introduction which includes discussion on Celsus' date, identity and theological outlook, as well as an account of Origen's philosophical background and method. The notes elucidate the many obscure allusions of a difficult text.