Athenagoras: Embassy for the Christians, The Resurrection of the Dead
Overview
Athenagoras’ lived during the late second century and was one of early Christianity’s remarkable apologists. He supported the apostles’ successors in his writings and defended persecuted Christians, pleading for fair trials on behalf of persecuted Christians before pagan rulers. This volume contains a biography of his life, analysis of his works, as well as Athenagoras’ works Embassy for the Christians and The Ressurection of the Dead.
Top Highlights
“Three charges are brought against us by rumour22: godlessness, Thyestean banquets, and intercourse such as Oedipus practised.” (Page 32)
“Well then, these angels fell a-lusting after maidens and yielded to fleshly desires, and he, the chief of them,210 became heedless and wicked in the administration of his charge. Thus by those that went after maidens were the so-called giants begotten, and it is no marvel that an account, though incomplete, of the giants was told by the poets. Earthly wisdom differs from that of the prophets as a likely tale does from the truth; the one is earthbound and under the ruler of matter, the other is from heaven.” (Page 63)
“When they abuse us and strike us on one cheek, we let them strike the other, too, and if they snatch our tunic from us, we give them our cloak besides. No, it is against the life of our bodies that they plot, when we have been drained of our wealth; they hurl upon us accusations of a host of crimes which it has really never even crossed our minds to perpetrate17 but which are proper to idlers and men of that sort.” (Pages 30–31)
“Now when we make a distinction between matter and God and show that matter is one being while God is quite other, completely separated from the former—for the divine is unbegotten and invisible, beheld only by mind and thought, while matter is subject to generation and corruption—surely it is unreasonable of them to charge us with atheism.” (Pages 33–34)
“Thus you will not be victimized by ignorance, and we, once we are set free from the results of uncritical rumour among the multitude, shall have no more enemies to meet.” (Page 32)
- Title: Athenagoras: Embassy for the Christians, The Resurrection of the Dead
- Authors: Athenagoras of Athens, Joseph Hugh Crehan
- Series: Ancient Christian Writers
- Volume: 23
- Publisher: Newman Press
- Print Publication Date: 1956
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics › Early works to 1800; Resurrection › Early works to 1800
- ISBNs: 0809100363, 9780809100361
- Resource ID: LLS:THNGRSMBSSYRSDD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:01:27Z