Transfigured | Athenagoras - the most under-appreciated early Church Father @transfigured3673 | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
In this episode of Hank and Sam's continuing dialogues on the Church Fathers we discuss Athenagoras. We don't know much about Athenagoras but we have 1 maybe 2 of his letters. His most important work is "A Plea for the Christians" written around 165AD to the emperor Marcus Aurelius for the purpose of convincing the Emperor to end the persecution of Christians. Athenagoras was a well trained philosopher and was probably the smartest and more articulate of the church fathers of the second century and we hope to bring more attention to his importance with this episode.

A Plea for the Christians: newadvent.org/fathers/0205.htm

Link to podcast: https://anchor.fm/transfigured-sam/episodes/Athenagoras---the-most-underappreciated-Church-Father-with-Sam-and-Hank-e16s813

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:10 - Why were Christians persecuted?
00:15:40 - God, Idols, Icons, Sacrifices, and Worship
00:31:30 - The Trinity
00:45:30 - Philosophical Arguments for Monotheism
00:57:50 - The source of evil
01:08:30 - The origin of Paganism
01:14:40 - Sexual Ethics
01:19:35 - Murder and Abortion
01:23:00 - Concluding Remarks