TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jakob Engberg
AU  - Anders-Christian Jacobsen
AU  - Jörg Ulrich
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653046434
TI  - In Defence of Christianity
T2  - Early Christian Apologists
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-04643-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046064
N2  - 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.
KW  - religiöse Verfolgung, Konversion, Persecution, Heiliges Römisches Reich
LA  - English
ER  -