From the Lost Teaching of Polycarp: Identifying Irenaeus’ Apostolic Presbyter and the Author of Ad Diognetum. By Charles E. Hill
Polycarp of Smyrna was evidently one of the most prominent Christian leaders and teachers of the first half of the second century, but of his teaching all that has survived, as explicitly attributed to him, is his letter to the Philippians, written very early in his career. In this book, however, Ch...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 674-676 |
| Review of: | From the lost teaching of Polycarp (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2006) (Bauckham, Richard)
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| Summary: | Polycarp of Smyrna was evidently one of the most prominent Christian leaders and teachers of the first half of the second century, but of his teaching all that has survived, as explicitly attributed to him, is his letter to the Philippians, written very early in his career. In this book, however, Charles Hill argues that some of Polycarp’s oral teaching has been preserved by Irenaeus and that the Letter to Diognetus was written by Polycarp. If substantiated, either of these claims alone would significantly expand our knowledge of Polycarp as a Christian teacher and theologian. Hill argues each of the two claims separately and stresses that the two arguments are independent of each other. Readers may well be persuaded by one but not the other. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp055 |