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
On First Principles
1What the Apostles Handed Down2God Is Not a Body3The Eyes of the Heart4The Image of the Invisible God5Breath, Radiance, and Mirror6The Working of the Holy Spirit7Existence, Reason, and Holiness8Losing What You Learned9The Prince of Tyre10Once He Was Light11The End Like the Beginning12Whether the Stars Are Alive13The Angels and Their Offices14The World Held Together15Never Without a Body16Worlds Before This One17What Scripture Calls a World18The Father and the Creator19Punishing with Kindness20How God Became Man21The Spirit Called Paraclete22On the Soul23Made Equal at the Beginning24Vessels of Honor and Dishonor25The Risen Body and the Fire26The School of Souls27The Food of the Mind28What Is Up to Us29The Slow Cure30Willing, Running, and Mercy31The Seeds of Sin32Not Against Flesh and Blood33Three Kinds of Wisdom34Two Souls or One35Worlds Before and After36God All in All37Christ Takes Up the Kingdom38Breathed Out by God39Flesh, Soul, and Spirit40What the Letter Cannot Say41The Treasure in the Letter42Christ’s Soul and Formless Matter43Sharing in the Light