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AHOCT - Episode 22 - Athenagoras and Theophilus

A History of Christian Theology

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The First Principles of the Faith to Non-Christians

Athanagoras' book is a defence of the faith to non christians. It sets out first principles, but does it in a way that would shock some people nowadays. He says we don't expect people to be receptive to the gospel if at first they have presuppositions against what we could know. But when you get rid of those things in the mind, and then we can move on.

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