An Introduction to Athanasius' AGAINST THE HEATHEN (Contra Gentes)

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S:S:16, 17.

(1) 'Immoral features due to the poets.' But (a) they come to use with the same credential as the names and existence of the gods; (b) The poets more likely to have invented the divine than the human features of these beings.

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S:18.

(2) 'The gods worshipped for beneficent inventions,' &c. But this is no title to deification.

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S:19.

(3) 'Images (a) necessary to represent invisible beings, (b) a means of intercourse with the gods'

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S:20-22.

This refuted

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