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The Areopagus sermon refers to a sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens, at the Areopagus, and recounted in Acts 17:16–34. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Areopagus sermon is the most dramatic and most fully-reported speech of the missionary career of Saint Paul and followed a shorter address in Lystra recorded in Acts 14:15–17 .
The speech, known as the Areopagus sermon, refers to a sermon or explanation delivered by Apostle Paul at the Areopagus in Athens, and described in Acts 17:16–34. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The Areopagus sermon is the most dramatic and fullest reported speech of the missionary career of Saint Paul and followed a shorter address in Lystra Acts 14:15–17 ...
The Areopagus as viewed from the Acropolis. Engraved plaque containing Apostle Paul's Areopagus sermon.. The Areopagus (/ æ r i ˈ ɒ p ə ɡ ə s /) is a prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
As related in the Acts of the Apostles , he was converted to Christianity by the preaching of Paul the Apostle, [2] being first stirred to Christian doctrine by Paul's sermon at the Areopagus: Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Detail of Raphael's St Paul Preaching in Athens depicting Damaris. [1] Damaris (Ancient Greek: Δάμαρις) is the name of a woman mentioned in a single verse in Acts of the Apostles as one of those present when Paul of Tarsus preached in Athens in front of the Athenian Areopagus in c. AD 55.
St Paul preaching his Areopagus sermon in Athens, by Raphael, 1515. In missionary preaching the apostles were also assisted, but informally, by the laity, who explained the Christian doctrine to their acquaintances amongst unbelievers who, in their visits to the Christian assemblies, must have heard something of it, e.g., cf. I Cor., xiv, 23-24.
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The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos (Ancient Greek: Ἄγνωστος Θεός) is a theory by Eduard Norden first published in 1913 that proposes, based on the Christian Apostle Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts 17:23, that in addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshipped a deity they called "Agnostos Theos"; that is: "Unknown God", which Norden ...