RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
May 24, 2015 at 8:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2015 at 8:48 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:In AD 80, Clement of Rome, a disciple of both Peter and Paul who became the fourth pope, wrote the following:
Or maybe not.
Quote:Loisy maintains that the author of 1 Clement was a distinguished Roman elder who flourished 130-140 and that this Clement was named in the Shepherd of Hermas (Vision, 8:3), which is also to be dated to the mid second century.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/1clement.html
or...
http://www.rejectionofpascalswager.net/apostolic.html
Quote:The next personality that proto-orthodox Christianity brought forward as another example of apostolic succession is Clement of Rome (d. c101). We know very little about this Clement beyond the fact that an unsigned epistle from Rome to Corinth around 96 CE was attributed to him (the letter was unsigned) and that he was recognized by later tradition as the bishop of Rome.
BTW, the 96 dating assumes some "persecution of xtians" by Domitian for which there is no evidence at all.