The Collected Works

Exhortation to the Heathen CHAPTER 1. EXHORTATION TO ABANDON THE IMPIOUS MYSTERIES OF IDOLATRY FOR THE ADORATION OF THE DIVINE WORD AND GOD THE FATHER. CHAPTER 2. THE ABSURDITY AND IMPIETY OF THE HEATHEN MYSTERIES AND FABLES ABOUT THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF THEIR GODS. CHAPTER 3. THE CRUELTY OF THE SACRIFICES TO THE GODS. CHAPTER 4. THE ABSURDITY AND SHAMEFULNESS OF THE IMAGES BY WHICH THE GODS ARE WORSHIPPED. CHAPTER 5. THE OPINIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS RESPECTING GOD. CHAPTER 6. BY DIVINE INSPIRATION PHILOSOPHERS SOMETIMES HIT ON THE TRUTH. CHAPTER 7. THE POETS ALSO BEAR TESTIMONY TO THE TRUTH. CHAPTER 8. THE TRUE DOCTRINE IS TO BE SOUGHT IN THE PROPHETS. CHAPTER 9. THAT THOSE GRIEVOUSLY SIN WHO DESPISE OR NEGLECT GOD'S GRACIOUS CALLING. CHAPTER 10. ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION OF THE HEATHEN, THAT IT WAS NOT RIGHT TO ABANDON THE CUSTOMS OF THEIR FATHERS. CHAPTER 11. HOW GREAT ARE THE BENEFITS CONFERRED ON MAN THROUGH THE ADVENT OF CHRIST. CHAPTER 12. EXHORTATION TO ABANDON THEIR OLD ERRORS AND LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTIONS OF CHRIST. The Stromata THE STROMATA (BOOK I) Chapter 1. Preface - The Author's Object - The Utility of Written Compositions. Chapter 2. Objection to the Number of Extracts from Philosophical Writings in These Books Anticipated and Answered Chapter 3. Against the Sophists Chapter 4. Human Arts as Well as Divine Knowledge Proceed from God Chapter 5. Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology Chapter 6. The Benefit of Culture Chapter 7. The Eclectic Philosophy Paves the Way for Divine Virtue Chapter 8. The Sophistical Arts Useless Chapter 9. Human Knowledge Necessary for the Understanding of the Scriptures Chapter 10. To Act Well of Greater Consequence Than to Speak Well Chapter 11. What is the Philosophy Which the Apostle Bids Us Shun? Chapter 12. The Mysteries of the Faith Not to Be Divulged to All Chapter 13. All Sects of Philosophy Contain a Germ of Truth Chapter 14. Succession of Philosophers in Greece Chapter 15. The Greek Philosophy in Great Part Derived from the Barbarians Chapter 16. That the Inventors of Other Arts Were Mostly Barbarians Chapter 17. On the Saying of the Saviour, All that Came Before Me Were Thieves and Robbers. Chapter 18. He Illustrates the Apostle's Saying, I Will Destroy the Wisdom of the Wise. Chapter 19. That the Philosophers Have Attained to Some Portion of Truth Chapter 20. In What Respect Philosophy Contributes to the Comprehension of Divine Truth Plus much more.