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Originally Posted by Kevin  Do any credible church historians at all support Hislop?  |
I don't know about that, Kevin. I gather Hislop was more of a polemicist than a historian.
My only concern was with the early church historian Socrates, who chronicled that the Easter celebration was something that just sprang up:
"The aim of the apostles was not to appoint festival days, but to teach a righteous life and piety. And it seems to me that just as many other customs have been established in individual localities according to usage. So also the feast of Easter came to be observed in each place according to the individual peculiarities of the peoples inasmuch as none of the apostles legislated on the matter."
Ecclesastical History of Socrates Scholasticus (Schaff edition)
Book V, Chapter XXII