A Plea for the Christians

A Plea for the Christians

• Chapter 1. Injustice Shown Towards the Christians.
• Chapter 2. Claim to Be Treated as Others are When Accused.
• Chapter 3. Charges Brought Against the Christians.
• Chapter 4. The Christians are Not Atheists, But Acknowledge One Only God.
• Chapter 5. Testimony of the Poets to the Unity of God.
• Chapter 6. Opinions of the Philosophers as to the One God.
• Chapter 7. Superiority of the Christian Doctrine Respecting God.
• Chapter 8. Absurdities of Polytheism.
• Chapter 9. The Testimony of the Prophets.
• Chapter 10. The Christians Worship the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
• Chapter 11. The Moral Teaching of the Christians Repels the Charge Brought Against Them.
• Chapter 12. Consequent Absurdity of the Charge of Atheism.
• Chapter 13. Why the Christians Do Not Offer Sacrifices.
• Chapter 14. Inconsistency of Those Who Accuse the Christians.
• Chapter 15. The Christians Distinguish God from Matter.
• Chapter 16. The Christians Do Not Worship the Universe.
• Chapter 17. The Names of the Gods and Their Images are But of Recent Date.
• Chapter 18. The Gods Themselves Have Been Created, as the Poets Confess.
• Chapter 19. The Philosophers Agree with the Poets Respecting the Gods.
• Chapter 20. Absurd Representations of the Gods.
• Chapter 21. Impure Loves Ascribed to the Gods.
• Chapter 22. Pretended Symbolical Explanations.
• Chapter 23. Opinions of Thales and Plato.
• Chapter 24. Concerning the Angels and Giants.
• Chapter 25. The Poets and Philosophers Have Denied a Divine Providence.
• Chapter 26. The Demons Allure Men to the Worship of Images.
• Chapter 27. Artifices of the Demons.
• Chapter 28. The Heathen Gods Were Simply Men.
• Chapter 29. Proof of the Same from the Poets.
• Chapter 30. Reasons Why Divinity Has Been Ascribed to Men.
• Chapter 31. Confutation of the Other Charges Brought Against the Christians.
• Chapter 32. Elevated Morality of the Christians.
• Chapter 33. Chastity of the Christians with Respect to Marriage.
• Chapter 34. The Vast Difference in Morals Between the Christians and Their Accusers.
• Chapter 35. The Christians Condemn and Detest All Cruelty.
• Chapter 36. Bearing of the Doctrine of the Resurrection on the Practices of the Christians.
• Chapter 37. Entreaty to Be Fairly Judged.