[B-Greek] What is the ancient Greek word for "Christianity"?

Jack Kilmon jkilmon at historian.net
Tue Oct 12 18:02:32 EDT 2010



--------------------------------------------------
From: "Stephen Carlson" <stemmatic at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 2:49 PM
To: "Ted & Robin Shoemaker" <shoes6 at juno.com>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] What is the ancient Greek word for "Christianity"?

> 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
> --
> Stephen C. Carlson
> Graduate Program in Religion
> Duke University


It is used in Acts 11:26 and is considered to have been used first in 
Antioch around 60 CE.  It depends on when you would date the composition of 
Acts.

Jack 




More information about the B-Greek mailing list