A professor of rhetoric who lost his chair in the Great Persecution and set out to explain Christianity to educated Romans in their own literary style — and who wrote the eyewitness account of how the persecutors died.
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Contents
The Divine Institutes
1Wisdom and True Religion2One Ruler, Not Many3Poets, Philosophers, and Sibyls4The Gods Were Once Men5The Tomb of Jupiter6Saturn Was a Man7How Men Became Gods8Gods Made Out of Men9Rome’s Own Gods10Blood on the Altars11Who Invented These Rites12Made to Look Up13What Cicero Would Not Say14Statues That Cannot Defend Themselves15The Stars Are Not Gods16The Authority of Ancestors17Out of Nothing18Fire, Water, and Clay19The First Man and the Flood20The Two Kinds of Demons21Made to Stand Upright22Philosophy Cuts Itself Down23The Bridge Between Two Errors24What Belongs to Man Alone25The Highest Good Is Immortality26No Teacher of Virtue27Wisdom Fit for Robbers28Philosophers Who Chose Death29Common Wives and Hanging Cities30We Do Not Sell Water31The Adversary They Called Fortune32Wisdom Joined to Religion33Out of the Mouth of God34The Coming of the Son35Jesus the Great Priest36The Wonders and the Cross37The Cross Foretold38Words Confirmed by Deeds39Why the Teacher Took Flesh40The Sign of the Cross41The Fountain and the Broken Cisterns42Condemned Without a Hearing43When Justice Left the Earth44Bringing Back the Golden Age45What They Call Piety46Worship Cannot Be Forced47Justice Called Folly48Religion Cannot Be Forced49No One Compelled to Worship50True Worship and the Two Ways51The Steep Road and True Virtue52One Road and One Law53Virtue Without a Head54Giving to Those Who Cannot Repay55Ransoming Captives and Burying the Dead56The Emotions Are Not Diseases57The Greatest Fear Is Courage58Endurance and the Three Furies59The Pleasures of the Senses60The Altar in the Heart61The Gift and the Sacrifice62The World Had a Beginning63Why the World Was Made64Why Man Was Made Mortal65Made for Immortality66Why the Soul Does Not Die67The Last Age of the World68The Coming of the Judge69The Fire and the Thousand Years70The Last Watch