Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Medieval Sourcebook: Porphyry: Against the Christians As Christianity spread, there was an increasingly intellectual reaction to it among the classically oriented intellectuals who sought to defend reason . Here is Porphyry, a leading Neoplatonist attacking Christian unreason as reported by Eusebius. Some persons, ...

Biography and commentary on Porphyry's contributions to philosophy and science, with related links.

Link to fragments of Porphyry's Concerning Cult Images, as documented by Eusebius, and links to descriptions of books of Porphyry's surviving texts which can be ordered.

Porphyry's Against the Christians The Literary Remains edited and Translated with an Introduction and Epilogue by R. Joseph Hoffmann Throughout its first three centuries, the growing Christian religion was subjected not only to official persecution by the attacks of pagan intellectuals, who looked upon the new sect as a band of fanatics bent on worldwide domination, even while they professed to ...