The most learned and most argued-over teacher of the early church. His First Principles is the first attempt at a complete Christian theology; his reply to Celsus answers the sharpest pagan critic Christianity ever faced. Modern English.
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Contents
Against Celsus
1The Silence of Jesus2The Charge of Blind Faith3Moses Among the Wise Nations4The Lowest of the Seriphians5The Sign of the Virgin6The Dove at the Baptism7Bethlehem and the Ruler from Judah8The Servant and the Star9The Men Jesus Chose10The Body of a God11The Law of Their Fathers12He Gave Himself Up Willingly13Judas and the Philosophers14Foreknowledge and the Cup15The Signs at the Cross16Not Even His Own Disciples17Testing the Wonder-Workers18A Body You Could Touch19Not Seen Alike by All20A Voice Only Some Could Hear21Turning the Whole World Around22The Shadow of a Donkey23Sects and Sacred Animals24Churches Beside the City Assemblies25The God Made in Egypt26Let the Educated Come27Wool-Workers and Cobblers28Whether a Nature Can Change29A Physician Among the Sick30The Charge of Empty Hopes31The Seat God Never Leaves32The God Who Comes Down33Frogs Around a Marsh34Worms, Frogs, and Bats35Pandora and the Garden36The Charge Against Genesis37Hidden Meanings and Mortal Bodies38Fewer Evils, or More39Wrath and the Doctor’s Knife40No Better Than the Ants41Ants, Eagles, and Birds of Omen42Who Moves the Birds43Not for Lions or Eagles