Greek Apologists of the Second Century
Author | : Robert McQueen Grant |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert McQueen Grant |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alvyn Pettersen |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2020-08-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725265273 |
"They bring three charges against us: atheism, Thyestean banquets, and Oedipean unions." So a late second-century Christian Apologist wrote with reference to his critics. Against these and other charges the Apologists rallied. Not so, they maintained. It was not the Christians but their critics who were the atheists and the Christians were the true theists. They were atheists only insofar as they denied the fabricated gods of the cults and the immoral deities of theaters. That, they explained, was why Christians absented themselves, whatever the cost, from the imperial cult, theaters, and amphitheaters. They were not cannibals, as Thyestes was when he ate the flesh of his children. To suggest otherwise was to misunderstand Christians consuming Christ's flesh and blood at the Eucharist. Nor were they imitators of Oedipus, who entered into sexual relations with Jocasta, his Queen and, though he knew it not, also his mother. Christians did exchange the kiss of peace. They did love one another. They were not, however, incestuous. Any promiscuous love on their part extended only to a very practical love of every needy soul. This book explores these arguments, especially noting the Apologists' commitment to God's oneness, to Christians not worshipping anything made, and to humans properly caring for fellow creatures.
Author | : Philip Carrington |
Publisher | : Christian Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2022-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Near the middle of the second century [150-200 A.D.], there arose churchmen who are today called Apologists. They wrote to defend Christianity against hostile philosophies prevalent in the Roman world. Get to know the lives and thoughts of the earliest Christian apologists. This brief overview of second-century apologetics gives the reader the significant ideas of early Christian apologists. Among the Apologists who wrote in Greek were Justin Martyr, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria. Tertullian was an Apologist who wrote in Latin. In the final chapter, Carrington relates second-century apologetics to modern thought, which will help you understand the importance of classic apologetics.
Author | : Frederick Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leslie William Barnard |
Publisher | : Editions Beauchesne |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
ISBN | : |
Athenagoras, the late-second-century apologist, was almost unknown in Christian antiquity and has not attracted much attention from modern scholars. This study examines systematically what is known of his life, his works, his background in Greek philosophy and in the Biblical and Christian tradition. His doctrines of God, of the Logos-Son, the Holy Spirit and the Trinity are discussed as is his doctrine of Creation and of man. His knowlege of the Church and liturgy is shown to be more extensive than has beensometimes thought. Finally his strong emphasis on the Christian life and his witness to the moral goodness found among Christians from all classes of society are shown to be convincing proofs of the difference Christianity has made by its coming into the Graeco-Roman world. The author argues that the value of Athenagoras' work lies in his sensitivity to the intellectual currents of his time which he sought to adapt to the service of the Christian faith.
Author | : Frances Young |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2004-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521460835 |
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Author | : Alvyn Pettersen |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-08-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725265354 |
“They bring three charges against us: atheism, Thyestean banquets, and Oedipean unions.” So a late second-century Christian Apologist wrote with reference to his critics. Against these and other charges the Apologists rallied. Not so, they maintained. It was not the Christians but their critics who were the atheists and the Christians were the true theists. They were atheists only insofar as they denied the fabricated gods of the cults and the immoral deities of theaters. That, they explained, was why Christians absented themselves, whatever the cost, from the imperial cult, theaters, and amphitheaters. They were not cannibals, as Thyestes was when he ate the flesh of his children. To suggest otherwise was to misunderstand Christians consuming Christ’s flesh and blood at the Eucharist. Nor were they imitators of Oedipus, who entered into sexual relations with Jocasta, his Queen and, though he knew it not, also his mother. Christians did exchange the kiss of peace. They did love one another. They were not, however, incestuous. Any promiscuous love on their part extended only to a very practical love of every needy soul. This book explores these arguments, especially noting the Apologists’ commitment to God’s oneness, to Christians not worshipping anything made, and to humans properly caring for fellow creatures.
Author | : Philip Carrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jörg Ulrich |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
ISBN | : 9783631579763 |
This book contains the contributions to a workshop on apologetics in early Christianity which took place at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford in the summer of 2007. The workshop was arranged by scholars from Germany, Finland and Denmark who had for some time worked together in a project on early Christian apologetics. The aim of the workshop was thus to present and discuss some of the results and still unsolved problems which arose from this project. The book presents the contributions to the workshop. Hereby the editors hope to reach a larger audience and thus to be able to further the discussion of the topic of early Christian apologetics.
Author | : Mark J. Edwards |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1999-06-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 019154437X |
This book is the first to tackle the origins and purpose of literary religious apologetic in the first centuries of the Christian era by discussing, on their own terms, texts composed by pagan and Jewish authors as well as Christians. Previous studies of apologetic have focused primarily on the Christian apologists of the second century. These, and other Christian authors, are represented also in this volume but, in addition, experts in the religious history of the pagan world, in Judaism, and in late antique philosophy examine very different literary traditions to see to what extent techniques and motifs were shared across the religious divide. Each contributor has investigated the probable audience, the literary milieu, and the specific social, political, and cultural circumstances which elicited each apologetic text. In many cases these questions lead on to the further issue of the relation between the readers addressed by the author and the actual readers, and the extent to which a defined literary genre of apologetic developed. These studies, ranging in time from the New Testament to the early fourth century, and including novel contributions by specialists in ancient history, Jewish history, ancient philosophy, the New Testament, and patristics, will put the study of ancient religious apologetic on to a new footing.