Later Apologists
- Hippolytus of Rome, 170-236
- Refutatio Omnium Haeresium
- Apollinaris, bishop of Hierapolis
- opens new windowArnobius of Sicca (the elder), 253–c. 337:
- apologist during reign of Diocletian
- convert from paganism
- wrote Adversus nationes
- Clement of Alexandria
- Origen
- Lactantius
- opens new windowEusebius, bishop of Caesarea, c. 260-c. 340
- opens new windowTertullian, c. 160-c. 230 (opens new windowabout): see also Ante-Nicene Fathers
- opens new windowAdversus Marcionem
- De praescriptione haereticorum (On the prescription against heretics)
- Augustine
- on heresy
- opens new windowMarcus Minucius Felix, d. c. 250 (opens new windowabout)
- opens new windowEpiphanius of Salamis, c. 310-403
- opens new windowPanárion: lists 80 heresies
- opens new windowTheodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus (or Cyr), c. 393 - d. before 466 (opens new windowabout): see Antiochene School
- opposed Cyril's teachings
- Haereticarum fabularum compendium
- opens new windowJohn of Damascus
- John Chrysostom, d. 407
Second-century Apologists
- Quadratus (opens new windowabout)
- Apology written to Hadrian, 125
- survives only as quoted fragment in Eusebius' History (4.3.1–2)
- fragment refers to the miracles of Jesus
- opens new windowAristides, early 2nd c.
- Apology
- opens new windowJustin Martyr, c. 100-c. 165 (opens new windowabout)
- calls Simon Magus the first heretic in Sýntagma
- opens new windowTatian, c.120–c. 173 (opens new windowabout)
- pupil of Justin
- opens new windowDiatessaron
- opens new windowMelito of Sardis, d. 190
- opens new windowIrenaeus, bishop of Lyons, c. 135–200 (opens new windowabout)
- disciple of Polycarp
- Adversus haereses (Valentinius and Gnosticism)
- opens new windowTheophilus of Antioch, d. 181 (opens new windowabout)
- opens new windowAthenagoras of Athens, active 2nd c. (opens new windowabout)
- convert from Platonism
- Hegesippus, 2nd c.
- Memorials
- Epistle to Diognetus, late 2nd c.
- Philastrius, bishop of Brescia
- Diversarum haereseon liber
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Selected Books on the Apologists
Greek Apologists of the Second Century by Call Number: BT1115 .G7 1988
The Early Christian Apologists and Greek Philosophy: Exemplified by Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria by Call Number: BT1115 .T552 1973
Ancient Apologetic Exegesis: Introducing and Recovering Theophilus's World by
Taking a radical new approach to second-century theology, 'Ancient Apologetic Exegesis' examines the work of Saint Theophilus of Antioch, with a full understanding of the man and his times. The second century is often dismissed by theologians, despite a near-living memory of Jesus and his apostles from only a generation or two prior, but Stuart E. Parsons shows that a distinctive biblical exegesis was used by those second-century apologists who challenged Greco-Roman pagan religionists. Current literature misunderstands second-century exegetical approaches, but by looking behind anachronistic views of ancient genre, literacy, and rhetoric, we can rediscover a forgotten form of early Christian exegesis.
Call Number: EBSCO eBook Religion CollectionPublication Date: 2015
