CELSUS, a Greek philosopher who in the second century (about 178) wrote a book against the Christians, to which Origen replied with his Contra Celsum. Nothing is known either of the book or of the author, except what can be gathered from Origen's reply.
C. Andresen, Logos and Nomos. Berlin: de Groyter, 1955. | |
Silke-Petra Bergijan, "Celsus the Epicurean? The Interpretation of an Argument in Origen, Contra Celsum," Harvard Theological Review 94.2 (2001): 181-206. | |
Gary T. Burke, "Walter Bauer and Celsus: The shape of Late Second Century Christianity," The Second Century, 4 (1984): 1-7. | |
Gary T. Burke, "Celsus and the Old Testament," Vetus Testamentum 36.2 (April 1986): 241-245. | |
Henry Chadwick, "Origen, Celsus and the Resurrection of the Body," Harvard Theological Review 41 (1948): 83-102. | |
Bernard Doherty, "Competing for the Crown: Tertullian, Montanism and 'Voluntary Martyrdom' Revisited," Phronema 36.2 (2021): 1-32. | |
Coleman M. Ford, "'Able to Convince Only the Foolish': Anti-Christian Polemic as Social Scrutiny in Celsus’s on the True Doctrine," Churchman 133.1 (Spring 2019): 21-33. | |
John Alfred Faulkner, “The First Intellectual Attack on Christianity,” Review & Expositor 15.2 (April 1918): 134-141. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] | |
W.H.C. Frend, "Christianity in the Second Century: Orthodoxy and Diversity," The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 48.2 (April 1997): 302-313. | |
David Neal Greenwood, "The Alethes Logos of Celsus and the Historicity of Christ," Anglican Theological Review 96.4 (Fall 2014): 705-713. | |
Howard M. Jackson,"The Setting and Sectarian Provenance of the Fragment of the ‘Celestial Dialogue’ Preserved by Origen from Celsus’s Alethes Logos," Harvard Theological Review 85.3 (July 1992): 273-305. | |
Adam C. Koontz, "Scripture as Philosophy in Origen's Contra Celsum," Concordia Theological Quarterly 83.3-4 (July 2019): 237-49. | |
Antti Laato, "Celsus, Toledot Yeshu and Early Traces of Apology for the Virgin Birth of Jesus," Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 27 (2016): 61-80. | |
Silke-Petra Bergjan, "Celsus the Epicurean?: The Interpretation of an Argument in Origen, Contra Celsum," Harvard Theological Review 94. 2 (April 2001): 179-204. | |
Johannes Quasten, Patrology. Vol. 2. Utrecht / Westminster: Spectrum / Christian Classics, 1953. Pbk. ISBN: 0870610856. | |
Jason M. Scarborough, "Origen and Celsus: Exegesis and Apologetics," Union Seminary Quarterly Review 62.1-2 (2009): 46-56. | |
Celsus the Platonist (William Turner) | |
Gerard Watson, "Celsus and the Philosophical Opposition to Christianity," Irish Theological Quarterly 58.3 (1992): 165-179. | |
Robert L. Wilken, The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, 2nd edn. New Haven & London: Yale: University Press, 2011. . ISBN: 9780300160956. pp.94-125. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly] | |
Edward J. Young, "Biblical Criticism in the Second Century" (Pd.D. diss., The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1943). pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder] | |
Edward J. Young, "Celsus and the Old Testament," Westminster Theological Journal 6.2 (May 1944): 166-197. pdf [Reproduced by kind permission of the copyright holder] |