THEOPHILUS TO AUTOLYCUS. BOOK I. CHAP. I.—AUTOLYCUS AN IDOLATER AND SCORNER OF CHRISTIANS. A FLUENT tongue and an elegant style afford pleasure and such praise as vainglory delights in, to wretched men who have been corrupted in mind; the lover…
Read moreINTRODUCTORY NOTE TO CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA The second century of illumination is drawing to a close, as the great name of this Father comes into view, and introduces us to a new stage of the Church’s progress. From Britain to…
Read moreCHAP. I. THE OFFICE OF THE INSTRUCTOR. AS there are these three things in the case of man, habits, actions, and passions; habits are the department appropriated by hortatory discourse the guide to piety, which, like the ship’s keel, is…
Read moreCHAP. I.—ON EATING. KEEPING, then, to our aim, and selecting the Scriptures which bear on the usefulness of training for life, we must now compendiously describe what the man who is called a Christian ought to be during the whole…
Read moreCHAP. I.—ON THE TRUE BEAUTY. IT iS then, as appears, the greatest of all lessons to know one’s self. For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God, not by wearing…
Read moreCHAP. I.—PREFACE—THE AUTHOR’S OBJECT—THE UTILITY OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS. [Wants the beginning] ……….that you may read them under your hand, and may be able to preserve them. Whether written compositions are not to be left behind at …
Read moreCHAP. I.—INTRODUCTORY. As Scripture has called the Greeks pilferers of the Barbarian2 philosophy, it will next have to be considered how this may be briefly demonstrated. For we shall not only show that they have imitated and copied the marvels…
Read moreCHAPTER I I. The Valentinians, who hold that the union of man and woman is derived from the divine emanation in heaven above, approve of marriage. The followers of Basilides, on the other hand, say that when the apostles asked…
Read moreCHAP. I.—ORDER OF CONTENTS. It will follow, I think, that I should treat of martyrdom, and of who the perfect man is. With these points shall be included what follows in accordance with the demands of the points to be…
Read moreCHAP. I.—ON FAITH Of the Gnostic so much has been cursorily, as it were, written. We proceed now to the sequel, and must again contemplate faith; for there are some that draw the distinction, that faith has reference to the…
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The Model of Christian Liberty. This DVD includes “Dawn’s Early Light: A Brief History of America’s Christian Foundations” and bonus features.
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A sweeping epic chronicling the rise and decline of Western thought and culture
