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Defending and Defining the Faith: An Introduction to Early Christian Apologetic Literature

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Defending and Defining the Faith: An Introduction to Early Christian Apologetic Literature - Williams, D H
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In Early Christian Apologetics, D.H. Williams offers a first comprehensive presentation of Christian apologetic literature from the second to the fifth century CE. Williams argues that most apologies were not directed at a pagan readership. In most cases, ancient apologetics had a double object: to instruct the Christian and persuade weak Christians or non-Christians who were sympathetic to Christian claims. Taken cumulatively, he finds, apologetic literature was integral to the formation of the Christian identity in the ...

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Defending and Defining the Faith: An Introduction to Early Christian Apologetic Literature 2020, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190620509

Hardcover