Athenagoras

Title: Athenagoras
Category: Society & Culture / Religion | Words: 1491 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Athenagoras

Athenagoras of Athens address Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus, about Christianity and the society, in the late 2nd century AD, in order to persuade them that Christianity and the people whom believed in it were law bidding, caring and righteous people. He wrote several pieces of philosophy in the defense of Christianity. His speech to Marcus Aurelius talked about several things concerning Christianity and society. Moreover, is his most famous piece of work. His …showed first 75 words of 1491 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1491 total…continue to be so true today. As James J. O’Donnell, wrote in The Critique of Ideology “ In all this drama, Christianity and the church are far from irrelevant. The paradox is that they are essential and yet dispensable. The message of grace could not have come into this world without them, and the church continues to bear the special marks of divine favor that make it a sure guide and a channel of grace”

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