A Plea For the Christians
- 1Chapter I.-Injustice Shown Towards the Christians.
- 2Chapter II.-Claim to Be Treated as Others are When Accused.
- 3Chapter III.-Charges Brought Against the Christians.
- 4Chapter IV.-The Christians are Not Atheists, But Acknowledge One Only God.
- 5Chapter V.-Testimony of the Poets to the Unity of God.
- 6Chapter VI.-Opinions of the Philosophers as to the One God.
- 7Chapter VII.-Superiority of the Christian Doctrine Respecting God.
- 8Chapter VIII.-Absurdities of Polytheism.
- 9Chapter IX.-The Testimony of the Prophets.
- 10Chapter X.-The Christians Worship the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
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- 12Chapter XII.-Consequent Absurdity of the Charge of Atheism.
- 13Chapter XIII.-Why the Christians Do Not Offer Sacrifices.
- 14Chapter XIV.-Inconsistency of Those Who Accuse the Christians.
- 15Chapter XV.-The Christians Distinguish God from Matter.
- 16Chapter XVI.-The Christians Do Not Worship the Universe.
- 17Chapter XVII.-The Names of the Gods and Their Images are But of Recent Date.
- 18Chapter XVIII.-The Gods Themselves Have Been Created, as the Poets Confess.
- 19Chapter XIX.-The Philosophers Agree with the Poets Respecting the Gods.
- 20Chapter XX.-Absurd Representations of the Gods.
- 21Chapter XXI.-Impure Loves Ascribed to the Gods.
- 22Chapter XXII.-Pretended Symbolical Explanations.
- 23Chapter XXIII.-Opinions of Thales and Plato.
- 24Chapter XXIV.-Concerning the Angels and Giants.
- 25Chapter XXV.-The Poets and Philosophers Have Denied a Divine Providence.
- 26Chapter XXVI.-The Demons Allure Men to the Worship of Images,
- 27Chapter XXVII.-Artifices of the Demons.
- 28Chapter XXVIII.-The Heathen Gods Were Simply Men.
- 29Chapter XXIX.-Proof of the Same from the Poets.
- 30Chapter XXX.-Reasons Why Divinity Has Been Ascribed to Men.
- 31Chapter XXXI.-Confutation of the Other Charges Brought Against the Christians.
- 32Chapter XXXII.-Elevated Morality of the Christians.
- 33Chapter XXXIII.-Chastity of the Christians with Respect to Marriage.
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- 35Chapter XXXV.-The Christians Condemn and Detest All Cruelty.
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- 37Chapter XXXVII.-Entreaty to Be Fairly Judged.