Publication

2014 - Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

65,750 words, Guess

Page Count

263 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-103631623836
  • ISBN-139783631623831
  • ISBN-139783653046434
  • ISBN-103653046432
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014017237
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number879370809
  • Better World Books9783631623831
  • Better World Books9783653046434
  • Open LibraryOL28411390M

Classifications

  • DDC239/.1
  • LCCBT1115 .I5 2014
  • LCCBT1115.I5 2014
and 1 more
  • LCCBR65.E663 .E384 2014

Alternate Titles

  • In defense of Christianity

Description

In Defence of Christianity examines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided in four parts. Part I provides an introduction to apology and apologetics in antiquity, an overview of the early Christian apologists, and an outline of their argumentation. The nine articles of Part II each cover one of the early apologists: Aristides, Justin, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, the author of the Letter to Diognetus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian and Minucius Felix. Part III contextualises the apologists by providing an English translation of contemporary pagan criticism of Christianity and by discussing this critique. Part IV consists of a single article discussing how Eusebius depicted and used the apologists in his Ecclesiastical History.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Early Christianity in the context of antiquity -- Volume 15
  • Early Christianity in the context of antiquity -- v. 15.

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