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What if resurrection is not a distant promise, but a change already at work?
In The Treatise on the Resurrection, also called the Epistle to Rheginos, an unnamed Christian teacher answers a pupil’s doubts about death. Rheginos wants to understand resurrection. His teacher offers a striking answer: according to the letter, it is real, spiritual, and already shared by those who belong to the Saviour.
This short letter brings faith and philosophy into close conversation. The teacher draws on Christ, Paul, and images of light, seed, and clothing to explain a change that is not the revival of a corpse. At stake is how believers understand death, identity, and their part in Christ’s rising.
What you’ll discover
- A pupil’s urgent question Meet Rheginos through a personal reply that treats his doubts as questions worth answering.
- The Saviour’s two natures Explore how the teacher grounds his argument in Christ as both human and divine.
- Resurrection in the present Consider the letter’s claim that believers already share in the Saviour’s suffering and rising.
- Truth rather than illusion Follow the teacher’s response to those who dismiss a spiritual resurrection as a pleasing story.
- Light overcoming darkness Discover images of imperishability clothing the perishable, making a difficult idea vivid and concrete.
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Readers drawn to early Christian letters, the Nag Hammadi library and questions about life beyond death will love this work. It also suits those who enjoy a teacher's personal voice and images of sunlight.
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- A teacher answers a student named Rheginos
- Real rest comes from truth, not endless questions
- Christ is both Son of God and Son of Man
- The Savior swallowed up death and draws us upward
- Resurrection rests on faith and on what is truly yours
- The resurrection discloses what is already true
- Live now as someone who has already risen
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The Treatise on the Resurrection
by Attributed to Athenagoras of Athens · 175
A teacher writes to his pupil Rheginos to say that the resurrection is something you already possess.
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What if the great change you fear has in some sense already happened? That is the startling offer of a short letter from the ancient world, written by a teacher to a student named Rheginos.
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A teacher answers a student named Rheginos
The Treatise on the Resurrection is a letter, and it reads like one. A teacher addresses a pupil he calls my son Rheginos, who has asked what is proper to believe about the resurrection. The teacher says the matter is necessary and promises to explain it. He writes as a guide who knows his student and cares how he lives.
The letter was copied into a papyrus book that belonged to thirteen books found near Nag Hammadi in 1945. Scholars think the Coptic is a translation from Greek, and most place the original in the second or third century. Nobody can say exactly when or by whom.
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Athenagoras of Athens. The Treatise on the Resurrection. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-treatise-on-the-resurrection.
Athenagoras of Athens. (2026). The treatise on the resurrection. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-treatise-on-the-resurrection (Original work published ca. 175)
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What is the Treatise on the Resurrection about?
It is a teacher's letter to a pupil named Rheginos. It explains that Christ swallowed up death, that believers are drawn upward like beams of light, and that the resurrection is a spiritual reality that those who know the truth already possess.
Who is Rheginos in the Epistle to Rheginos?
Rheginos is the student to whom the letter is addressed. The teacher calls him my son, answers his question about the resurrection, and urges him to live as one already risen. Nothing else about him is known from the letter.
Where was the Treatise on the Resurrection found and when was it written?
It was found near Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945, in a Coptic papyrus book known as Codex One. Scholars generally date the original Greek to the second or third century, and its author remains anonymous.
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