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The Treatise On The Resurrection Of The Dead

The Treatise On The Resurrection Of The Dead

By Athenagoras

Title Page
Chapter I.--Defence of the Truth Should Precede Discussions Regarding It.
Chapter II.--A Resurrection is Not Impossible.
Chapter III.--He Who Could Create, Can Also Raise Up the Dead.
Chapter IV.--Objection from the Fact that Some Human Bodies Have Become Part of Others.
Chapter V.--Reference to the Processes of Digestion and Nutrition.
Chapter VI.--Everything that is Useless or Hurtful is Rejected.
Chapter VII.--The Resurrection-Body Different from the Present.
Chapter VIII.--Human Flesh Not the Proper or Natural Food of Men.
Chapter IX.--Absurdity of Arguing from Man's Impotency.
Chapter X.--It Cannot Be Shown that God Does Not Will a Resurrection.
Chapter XI.--Recapitulation.
Chapter XII.--Argument for the Resurrection From the Purpose Contemplated in Man's Creation.
Chapter XIII.--Continuation of the Argument.
Chapter XIV.--The Resurrection Does Not Rest Solely on the Fact of a Future Judgment.
Chapter XV.--Argument for the Resurrection from the Nature of Man.
Chapter XVI--Analogy of Death and Sleep, and Consequent Argument for the Resurrection.
Chapter XVII.--The Series of Changes We Can Now Trace in Man Renders a Resurrection Probable.
Chapter XVIII.--Judgment Must Have Reference Both to Soul and Body: There Will Therefore Be a Resurrection.
Chapter XIX.--Man Would Be More Unfavourably Situated Than the Beasts If There Were No Resurrection.
Chapter XX.--Man Must Be Possessed Both of a Body and Soul Hereafter, that the Judgment Passed Upon Him May Be Just.
Chapter XXI.--Continuation of the Argument.
Chapter XXII.--Continuation of the Argument.
Chapter XXIII.--Continuation of the Argument.
Chapter XXIV.--Argument for the Resurrection from the Chief End of Man.
Chapter XXV.--Argument Continued and Concluded.

The Treatise On The Resurrection Of The Dead

By Athenagoras

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