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The Resurrection of the Dead

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The Treatise of Athenagoras

The Athenian, Philosopher and Christian, on the Resurrection of the Dead.


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Chapter I.—Defence of the Truth Should Precede Discussions Regarding It.

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Chapter II.—A Resurrection is Not Impossible.

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Chapter III.—He Who Could Create, Can Also Raise Up the Dead.

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Chapter IV.—Objection from the Fact that Some Human Bodies Have Become Part of Others.

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Chapter V.—Reference to the Processes of Digestion and Nutrition.

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Chapter VI.—Everything that is Useless or Hurtful is Rejected.

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Chapter VII.—The Resurrection-Body Different from the Present.

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Chapter VIII.—Human Flesh Not the Proper or Natural Food of Men.

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Chapter IX.—Absurdity of Arguing from Man’s Impotency.

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Chapter X.—It Cannot Be Shown that God Does Not Will a Resurrection.

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Chapter XI.—Recapitulation.

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Chapter XII.—Argument for the Resurrection from the Purpose Contemplated in Man’s Creation.

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Chapter XIII.—Continuation of the Argument.

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Chapter XIV.—The Resurrection Does Not Rest Solely on the Fact of a Future Judgment.

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Chapter XV.—Argument for the Resurrection from the Nature of Man.

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Chapter XVI—Analogy of Death and Sleep, and Consequent Argument for the Resurrection.

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Chapter XVII.—The Series of Changes We Can Now Trace in Man Renders a Resurrection Probable.

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Chapter XVIII.—Judgment Must Have Reference Both to Soul and Body: There Will Therefore Be a Resurrection.

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Chapter XIX.—Man Would Be More Unfavourably Situated Than the Beasts If There Were No Resurrection.

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Chapter XX.—Man Must Be Possessed Both of a Body and Soul Hereafter, that the Judgment Passed Upon Him May Be Just.

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Chapter XXI.—Continuation of the Argument.

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Chapter XXII.—Continuation of the Argument.

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Chapter XXIII.—Continuation of the Argument.

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Chapter XXIV.—Argument for the Resurrection from the Chief End of Man.

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Chapter XXV.—Argument Continued and Concluded.

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