"Antilegomena" (from Greek, meaning things contradicted or disputed, literally spoken against) was an epithet used by the Church Fathers to denote those books of the New Testament which, although sometimes publicly read in the churches, were not—for a considerable amount of time—considered to be genuine, or received into the canon of Scripture. They were thus contrasted with the "Homologoumena" (from Greek ), or universally acknowledged writings. The term is sometimes applied also… (More on Antilegomena)