Against Celsus Book 7: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Against Celsus Book 7, credited to Origen of Alexandria, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Against Celsus Book 7 by Origen of Alexandria. (Translated by Frederick Crombie.) Read in English by David Ronald. Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a pagan philosopher and controversialist who had written a scathing attack on Christianity in his treatise "The True Word". Among a variety of other charges, Celsus had denounced many Christian doctrines as irrational and criticized Christians themselves as uneducated, deluded, unpatriotic, close-minded towards reason, and too accepting of sinners. He had accused Jesus of performing his miracles using black magic rather than actual divine powers and of plagiarizing his teachings from Plato. Celsus had warned that Christianity itself was drawing people away from traditional religion and claimed that its growth would lead to a collapse of traditional, conservative values. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: Against Celsus Book 7
• Author credits: Origen of Alexandria
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 2:35:38

Catalogue topics

• church history
• apologetics
• apology

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapters 1-10 — 21:07
2. 02 - Chapters 11-20 — 22:05
3. 03 - Chapters 21-30 — 21:26
4. 04 - Chapters 31-40 — 24:02
5. 05 - Chapters 41-50 — 25:08
6. 06 - Chapters 51-60 — 21:04
7. 07 - Chapters 61-70 — 20:46

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