ATHENAGORAS.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Atheists, Christians not such, 130.
charge retorted on heathen, 131.
absurdity of this charge, 134.
Athenagoras, his place among primitive apologists, 125.
a trophy of St. Paul’s preaching, 125.
his writings harmonized with Justin Martyr and others, by Bishop Kaye, 126.
notes of Gesner and Stephans, 126.
no historical information concerning him, 127.
rare mention of his name in history, 127.
beauty and merit of his writings, 127.
Christianity, at the period of Athenagoras, 125.
its conflict with heresies, 125.
Sibylline predictions of, 125, 132.
his treatise of the resurrection, 149.
Christians, plea in their behalf addressed to Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, 129.
claim to legal protection, 130.
superiority of their theology, 132.
why they do not offer sacrifices, 134.
inconsistency of their accusers, 135.
distinguish God from matter, 135.
do not worship the universe, 136.
calumnies against, confuted, 145.
contrasted with their accusers, 147.
abolish gladiatorial shows, 147.
refuse worship to the emperors, 148.
Digestion and nutrition consistent with resurrection, 151.
Divine Providence denied by the poets and philosophers, 142.
valuable editorial labours, 125.
lack of sympathy with the primitive writers, 126.
God, testimony of the poets to unity, 131.
opinions of philosophers concerning, 131.
distinguished from matter, 135.
absurd representations of gods, 138.
impure ideas concerning the gods, 138.
pretended explanations of mythology, 140.
Human flesh, not the proper food of man, 153.
necessary to soul and body, 158.
Man, argument from his nature, 156.
and from changes in his life, 158.
and from his liability to judgment, 160.
and from such good and evil, 161.
and from laws of his nature, 161.
and from the objects of his existence, 162.
Marriage, chastity of Christians with respect to, 146.
Philosophers, opinions of, 131.
Plato and Pythagoras sustain the possibility of resurrection, 148.
describe the gods as originally men, 144.
Polytheism, absurdities of, 132.
canibalism no impediment, 153.
will of the Creator concerning, 154.
argument from man’s nature, 156.
from changes in man’s life, 158.
if none, man less favoured than brutes, 159.
St. Paul, his preaching on Mars Hill, 125.
Sibyl, prediction of Christianity, 125, 132.
Soul and body, judgment of, 158.
Telemachus, heroic history of, 147.
Universe, not worshipped by Christians, 136.
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