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Book Synopsis Athenagoras and the Divine Logos by : Józef Korneliusz Trzebuniak Svd
Download or read book Athenagoras and the Divine Logos written by Józef Korneliusz Trzebuniak Svd and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the apologies Request for Christians and Treatise on the Resurrection, Athenagoras draws abundantly both from the thoughts of the Greek philosophers-Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics-as well as from the reflections of Philo of Alexandria, John the Evangelist and Paul the Apostle. God creates, orders and maintains everything through his Logos. The Logos of God is described as the Platonic idea (ἰδέα) by which people are formed, and also the Aristotelian energy (ἐνεργεία), namely, the working power that creates humanity for eternal participation in God's happiness. The Athenian Philosopher confirms that the Logos manifests his presence in the world through spiritual beings. Ultimately, the main task of all human beings is to partake in the order given by the divine Logos.
Book Synopsis On the Divine Logos by : Józef Korneliusz Trzebuniak Svd
Download or read book On the Divine Logos written by Józef Korneliusz Trzebuniak Svd and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the Divine Logos was influenced by Greek philosophy and Philo of Alexandria. The apologists thus present the Logos as a cosmic principle and a divine Illuminator, who has little in common with the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth. The Logos brings people knowledge that contributes to the salvation of their souls and strengthens their union with God. The entities created by the Logos possess the same Spirit, but they differ in their share in the divine Logos. Unfortunately, there exist also demons that prevent the establishment of a relationship with the Logos, trouble human minds, and direct them towards matter. However, thanks to the bond with the divine Logos, some follow the Holy Spirit. In cooperation with grace and through obedience to the Logos, such people can overcome death and obtain immortality in God.From their reflections on the divine Logos, we learn that individual beings owe their existence to the Logos and Wisdom of God. All creatures have been given the laws of the Logos so they can participate in life and rationality. Thanks to these special gifts, all created matter has a share in the divine nature. This participation is called the sacred law (νόμον ἅγιον) through which creatures remain in constant contact with their Creator and are sustained by the hand of God. This causes the entire universe to be purposefully and harmoniously interconnected. In addition, humans are called to a special unity with the Logos and to believe in Christ so they might be God's instruments and preachers of the Truth. Thanks to the communion with the Logos, after the earthly life, each person can also receive immortality and eternal life. According to the apologists, the whole teaching of the divine Logos is best presented in the New Testament.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Writings of Athenagoras by : Athenagoras
Download or read book The Sacred Writings of Athenagoras written by Athenagoras and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. Every single volume is accurately annotated, including * an extensive biography of the author and his life The Embassy for the Christians, the date of which is fixed by internal evidence as late in 176 or 177, was a carefully written plea for justice to the Christians made by a philosopher, on philosophical grounds, to the Emperors Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus, whom he flatters as conquerors, "but above all, philosophers". He first complains of the illogical and unjust discrimination against the Christians and of the calumnies they suffer, and then meets the charge of atheism (a major complaint directed at the Christians of the day was that by disbelieving in the Roman gods, they were showing themselves to be atheists). He establishes the principle of monotheism, citing pagan poets and philosophers in support of the very doctrines for which Christians are condemned, and argues for the superiority of the Christian belief in God to that of pagans. This first strongly-reasoned argument for the unity of God in Christian literature is supplemented by an able exposition of the Trinity. Assuming then the defensive, he justifies the Christian abstention from worship of the national deities by arguing that it is absurd and indecent, quoting at length the pagan poets and philosophers in support of his contention. Finally, he meets the charges of immorality by exposing the Christian ideal of purity, even in thought, and the inviolable sanctity of the marriage bond. The charge of cannibalism is refuted by showing the high regard for human life that leads the Christian to detest the crime of abortion. The treatise on the Resurrection of the Dead, the first complete exposition of the doctrine in Christian literature, was written later than the Apology, to which it may be considered as an appendix. The writer brings to the defence of the doctrine the best that contemporary philosophy could adduce. After meeting the objections common to his time, he seeks to prove the possibility of a resurrection in view either of the power of the Creator, or of the nature of our bodies. To exercise such powers is neither unworthy of God nor unjust to other creatures. He argues that the nature and end of man demand a perpetuation of the life of body and soul. There are reasons to think that De resurrectione is not by Athenagoras but by some 4th-century author, e.g. the use of at least one term (ἀγαλματοφορέω) coined by Philo of Alexandria and not widely known before the time of Origen. (courtesy of wikipedia.com)
Download or read book Athenagoras written by David Rankin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 is a Church Father who has not been given great attention in twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century scholarship. This book explores Athenagoras' undeniable place in the development of Christian thought on the divine, on the Trinity, on the human person, and on the resurrection. His work provides an important link between the mid-second-century and the work of Justin and that of the third-century Christian theologians of the East.
Book Synopsis Athenagoras by : Leslie William Barnard
Download or read book Athenagoras written by Leslie William Barnard and published by Editions Beauchesne. This book was released on 1972 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenagoras, the late-second-century apologist, was almost unknown in Christian antiquity and has not attracted much attention from modern scholars. This study examines systematically what is known of his life, his works, his background in Greek philosophy and in the Biblical and Christian tradition. His doctrines of God, of the Logos-Son, the Holy Spirit and the Trinity are discussed as is his doctrine of Creation and of man. His knowlege of the Church and liturgy is shown to be more extensive than has beensometimes thought. Finally his strong emphasis on the Christian life and his witness to the moral goodness found among Christians from all classes of society are shown to be convincing proofs of the difference Christianity has made by its coming into the Graeco-Roman world. The author argues that the value of Athenagoras' work lies in his sensitivity to the intellectual currents of his time which he sought to adapt to the service of the Christian faith.
Book Synopsis On the Divine Logos by : Józef Trzebuniak
Download or read book On the Divine Logos written by Józef Trzebuniak and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Plea for the Christians by : Athenagoras
Download or read book A Plea for the Christians written by Athenagoras and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In your empire, greatest of sovereigns, different nations have different customs and laws; and no one is hindered by law or fear of punishment from following his ancestral usages, however ridiculous these may be. A citizen of Ilium calls Hector a god, and pays divine honours to Helen, taking her for Adrasteia. The Lacedæmonian venerates Agamemnon as Zeus, and Phylonoë the daughter of Tyndarus; and the man of Tenedos worships Tennes. Aeterna Press
Book Synopsis Writings of Athenagoras by : Apostle Arne Horn
Download or read book Writings of Athenagoras written by Apostle Arne Horn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [A.D. 177.] In placing Athenagoras here, somewhat out of the order usually accepted, I commit no appreciable violence against chronology, and I gain a great advantage for the reader. To some extent we must recognise, in collocation, the principles of affinity and historic growth. Closing up the bright succession of the earlier Apologists, this favourite author affords also a fitting introduction to the great founder of the Alexandrian School, who comes next into view. His work opens the way for Clement's elaboration of Justin's claim, that the whole of philosophy is embraced in Christianity. It is charming to find the primal fountains of Christian thought uniting here, to flow on for ever in the widening and deepening channel of Catholic orthodoxy, as it gathers into itself all human culture, and enriches the world with products of regenerated mind, harvested from its overflow into the fields of philosophy and poetry and art and science.
Book Synopsis Irenaeus on the Trinity by : Jackson Lashier
Download or read book Irenaeus on the Trinity written by Jackson Lashier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Irenaeus on the Trinity, Jackson Lashier provides a fresh reading of Irenaeus' understanding of God, in dialogue with his opponents and sources, which reveals a more developed Trinitarian theology than traditionally thought. Key Trinitarian themes that emerge are the Fatherhood of God, the mutual indwelling relations of Father, Son, and Spirit, and the cooperative divine work of all three in the economy. The study finds Irenaeus' thought to depart in these areas from standard second century trajectories--Apologists and Gnostics--moving Trinitarian theology in the direction of more developed Trinitarian thought of later centuries. This monograph offers not only a better understanding of Irenaeus' thought, but also a fuller picture of the development of Trinitarian thought in early Christianity.
Book Synopsis The Apologeticks of the Learned Athenian Philosopher Athenagoras by : Athenagoras
Download or read book The Apologeticks of the Learned Athenian Philosopher Athenagoras written by Athenagoras and published by . This book was released on 1714 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Church of the first three centuries; or, notices of the lives and opinions of the early Fathers, with special reference to the Doctrine of the Trinity ... Second edition ... enlarged. Edited by E. Abbot by : Alvan LAMSON
Download or read book The Church of the first three centuries; or, notices of the lives and opinions of the early Fathers, with special reference to the Doctrine of the Trinity ... Second edition ... enlarged. Edited by E. Abbot written by Alvan LAMSON and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legatio Pro Christianis by : Athenagoras
Download or read book Legatio Pro Christianis written by Athenagoras and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1963 the seriesPatristische Texte und Studienhas been publishing research findings coordinated by the Patristics Commission, which today is a joint venture of all the German Academies. The series is presenting editions, commentaries and monographs on the writings and teachings of the Church Fathers.
Book Synopsis Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology: Volume 1 by : Michael C. Rea
Download or read book Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology: Volume 1 written by Michael C. Rea and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new two volume anthology bringing together the best recent writing in the interdisciplinary field of philosophical theology. Volume 1 collects essays on three distinctively Christian doctrines: trinity, incarnation, and atonement. Volume 2 focuses on topics arising in all of the major theistic religions: providence, resurrection, and scripture.
Book Synopsis The Church of the First Three Centuries, Or, Notices of the Lives and Opinions of the Early Fathers, with Special Reference to the Doctrine of the Trinity, Illustrating Its Late Origin and Gradual Formation by : Alvan Lamson
Download or read book The Church of the First Three Centuries, Or, Notices of the Lives and Opinions of the Early Fathers, with Special Reference to the Doctrine of the Trinity, Illustrating Its Late Origin and Gradual Formation written by Alvan Lamson and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Church of the First Three Centuries by : Alvan Lamson
Download or read book The Church of the First Three Centuries written by Alvan Lamson and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Critical History of Christian Literature and Doctrine from the Death of the Apostles to the Nicene Council by : Sir James Donaldson
Download or read book A Critical History of Christian Literature and Doctrine from the Death of the Apostles to the Nicene Council written by Sir James Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From the Susquehanna to the Tiber by : Jeremy Christiansen
Download or read book From the Susquehanna to the Tiber written by Jeremy Christiansen and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Christiansen offers an intimate account of life as a faithful—sometimes stumbling—member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Growing up in a small Mormon town, he served as a Mormon missionary for two years in Argentina, raised a young family in the Mormon Church, and served in Mormon leadership positions. But as he grew older, he became unsettled about the principles of his faith, setting him on a long search for God and for truth that would ultimately lead to the Roman Catholic Church. Based on detailed personal journals, this vivid book explores the highly unique approach to religious epistemology found in Mormonism. Although the faith theoretically encourages the use of reason, Mormons' beliefs, in practice, are rooted chiefly in emotion. Christiansen offers singular insight into life within this system—with all its beauties and its limits. Thanks to the subtle workings of Providence, Christiansen discovered Catholicism through the ancient writings of the Church Fathers, who revealed a robust Christian intellectual tradition, and through the mystical glory of her liturgy.
