Book title of the Day

by: Honzo

Today’s book title is:

The Refutation and Overthrow of Falsely So-Called Knowledge

- by Irenaeus, student of Polycarp.

Now that is a title. Straight, forceful, and to the point. No guessing on what Irenaeus’ topic is. You might know this five-volume work by it’s Latin-to-English title, Against Heresies. One snarky question, “If one takes so-called to mean that it was not really knowledge; doesn’t ‘falsely’ negate the ’so-called?’” Having a name like that and it being a five-volume work, it almost makes one wonder if the author never moved to Germany.

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3 Comments

  1. brad
    December 5, 2006 at 12:44 pm | Permalink

    hilarious!!!

  2. dave
    December 5, 2006 at 2:11 pm | Permalink

    One snarky question, “If one takes so-called to mean that it was not really knowledge; doesn’t ‘falsely’ negate the ’so-called?’”

    Ha…I thought the exact same thing before I read your entire post.

    Does that make me a geek?

  3. Henry Michael Imler
    December 5, 2006 at 11:37 pm | Permalink

    Lol, that is funny, Dave. If it does, then it is good to be a geek.

    But, overall, the title still works because of the third negative, does it not?

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