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Defending and Defining the Faith - An Introduction to Early Christian Apologetic Literature (Hardcover)
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Defending and Defining the Faith - An Introduction to Early Christian Apologetic Literature (Hardcover)
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In Early Christian Apologetics, D.H. Williams offers a
comprehensive presentation of Christian apologetic literature from
the second to the fifth century, considering each writer within the
intellectual context of the day. Williams argues that most
apologies were not directed at a pagan readership. In most cases,
he says, ancient apologetics had a double object: to instruct the
Christian and to persuade weak Christians or non-Christians who
were sympathetic to Christian claims. Traditionally, scholars of
apologetics have focused on the context of persecution in the
pre-Constantinian period. By following the links in the
intellectual trajectory up though the early fifth century, Williams
prompts deeper reflection on the process of Christian
self-definition in late antiquity. Taken cumulatively, he finds,
apologetic literature was in fact integral to the formation of the
Christian identity in the Roman world.
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