Athenagoras of Athens was a Christian thinker of the second century who engaged with contemporary philosophical thought in the matters of the divine, and the relationship of that divine to the material world. While clearly a Christian apologist, Athenagoras presents doctrines of God, of the Holy Trinity, and of other theological matters which clearly evidence an engagement with Greek philosophical thought which goes beyond the merely linguistic and embraces the notion of God as true being....

Athenagoras (circa 133 190) was a Father of the Church, a Proto-orthodox Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, besides that he was Athenian (though possibly not originally from Athens), a philosopher, and a convert to Christianity. In his writings he styles himself as "Athenagoras, the Athenian, Philosopher, and Christian". There is some evidence that he was a Platonist before his conversion, but this is not certain. Th...

"The Sacred Writings Of Athenagoras" provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. This edition includes the following works: 1. Novatian's treatise concerning the Trinity, which is divided into thirty-one chapters. He first of all, from chapter first to the eighth, considers those words of the Rule of Truth or Faith, which bid us believe on God the Father and Lord Almighty, the absolutely perfect C...

This anthology edited by Philip Schaff, a renowned ecclesiastic historian, includes the most important works by early Christian theologians. Their comportment and sacrifice, their lectures and preaching, their moral values, and their understanding of Christianity and its most precious messages - shaped the foundations of the Christianity, helping it spread throughout the Roman Empire and beyond its borders during the first centuries after the death of Jesus. The edition includes: Volume I:...

Have you ever wondered why the early church fought so fiercely to defend the physical resurrection of the human body?In Treatise on the Resurrection, second-century philosopher and apologist Athenagoras of Athens delivers one of the most intellectually rigorous and passionate defenses of life after death in early Christian literature. During an era when dominant Greek philosophies viewed the physical body as a corrupt prison for the soul, the Christian d...

Have you ever wondered why the early church fought so fiercely to defend the physical resurrection of the human body?In Treatise on the Resurrection, second-century philosopher and apologist Athenagoras of Athens delivers one of the most intellectually rigorous and passionate defenses of life after death in early Christian literature. During an era when dominant Greek philosophies viewed the physical body as a corrupt prison for the soul, the Christian d...

Athenagoras of Athens was a Christian writer who lived in the Roman empire from approximately 133 to 190 AD. He was well-versed in Greek philosophy and may have been a Platonist philosopher prior to his conversion to the Christian faith.This edition in the St. Polycarp Church Fathers Series presents Athenagoras' two extant works: Embassy for the Christians and On the Resurrection of the Dead. Within these two treatises, Athenagoras provides a well-reasoned defense...

Have you ever wondered why the early church fought so fiercely to defend the physical resurrection of the human body?In Treatise on the Resurrection, second-century philosopher and apologist Athenagoras of Athens delivers one of the most intellectually rigorous and passionate defenses of life after death in early Christian literature. During an era when dominant Greek philosophies viewed the physical body as a corrupt prison for the soul, the Christian d...

Have you ever wondered why the early church fought so fiercely to defend the physical resurrection of the human body?In Treatise on the Resurrection, second-century philosopher and apologist Athenagoras of Athens delivers one of the most intellectually rigorous and passionate defenses of life after death in early Christian literature. During an era when dominant Greek philosophies viewed the physical body as a corrupt prison for the soul, the Christian d...

The resurrection of the dead was, as Tertullian says, ‘the chief article of the whole Christian faith’ (De resurrectione 39.3) and one of those beliefs which most distinguished Christian thought from much other contemporary thinking. This book looks at the way in which post-death existence is represented in the work of the early Church Fathers - notably Athenagoras, Tertullian, and Origen - and the Letter to Rheginos, and how these representations compare with its treatme...