Contra Gentes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Contra Gentes, credited to Athanasius of Alexandria, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Contra Gentes, by Athanasius of Alexandria. Read by Jonathan Lange. Contra Gentes is the first of a two volume work published by Athanasius of Alexandria prior to the outbreak of the Arian controversy (ca. 319). It focuses especially on pagan beliefs and worship concluding with a defense of the Christian view of God and creation -- especially creation by the eternal Word. In this way, the ground is prepared for the second volume of his work, now published separately under the title De Incarnatione Verbi. (Summary by Jonathan Lange)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Contra Gentes
• Author credits: Athanasius of Alexandria
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 2:31:33

Catalogue topics

• paganism
• revelation
• God
• word

Track guide

1. 1 - Part 1a (1-7) — 21:30
2. 2 - Part 1b (8-12) — 19:38
3. 3 - Part 1c (13-22) — 29:27
4. 4 - Part 1d (23-29) — 22:25
5. 5 - Part 2 (30-34) — 15:05
6. 6 - Part 3a (35-39) — 16:27
7. 7 - Part 3b (40-47) — 27:06

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