Athenagoras of Athens and His Defense of Christianity

Written on 01/27/2026
Simonetta Carr

As Athenagoras examined Christianity in the second century, he found it utterly absurd. A religion about a man who was executed as a criminal and returned in a resurrected body? How primitive, he thought! Following Plato, any respectable philosopher knew that the body was a temporary shell for the soul to discard at death. Convinced […]