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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
"For the Glory of God and the Salvation of Souls!"- Thoughts on Witnessing and Theology from Within the Reformed Faith.
"But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the Word."
a-pol-o-get-ic (n.) — branch of theology that deals with the defense and proof of Christian doctrine.
The Apologists
1. The charges brought against the Christians caused the emergence of a new genre of Christian literature, the apology, taken from the greek apologia, meaning a speech for the defense. The authors of these works are known collectively as the Apologists, whose works were developed between 130 and 180 AD (an era frequently referred to as, the Age of the Apologists).
2. The first of these writers was Quadratus, probably an Athenian who in ca 125 wrote an apology addressed to emperor Hadrain. The work is now preserved only in fragments. Better known is the similar appeal of Aristides, another Athenian and a philosopher of sorts, who addressed his argument to Antoninus Pius in ca 140. Most famous of all is the Apology of Justin Martyr, a christian philosopher who apparently ran a school in Rome and wrote in the middle if the second century. Also included in this group are Melito of Sardis (writing 169 - 180), Athenagoras of whom nothing is know except his authorship of Supplication for the Christians (ca 177), and the bishop Theophilus of Antioch, who wrote the lengthy apology, To Autolycus.
"And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
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