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

Wieland Willker wie at uni-bremen.de
Wed Oct 13 13:42:06 EDT 2010


Stephen Carlson wrote: 
> XRISTIANISMOS 
> It occurs several times in the genuine letters of Ignatius
(c. 110-140).


There are no genuine letters of Ignatius :-)

They are a late 2nd CE forgery. 
Compare the works of Joly, Hübner and Lechner. Most recently
even Walter Schmithals accepted this. 



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    Wieland
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