The Eastern Cross/Library/Against the Heathen
Before writing On the Incarnation, St. Athanasius wrote this first half of the same work. It shows how people turned from God to idols, and how the soul and the order of creation still point to the one God and His Word.
Read it first, then On the Incarnation, and you have the whole argument.
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About this edition
Translated by Archibald Robertson, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 4 (1892), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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