[B-Greek] What is the ancient Greek word for "Christianity"?
Stephen Carlson
stemmatic at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 15:49:30 EDT 2010
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Ted & Robin Shoemaker <shoes6 at juno.com> wrote:
> 1. What is the ancient Greek word for "Christianity"?
XRISTIANISMOS Χριστιανισμός
> 2. What is the first known use of this word?
It occurs several times in the genuine letters of Ignatius (c. 110-140).
Stephen Carlson
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Stephen C. Carlson
Graduate Program in Religion
Duke University
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