Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Christian Apologetics

This book contains the contributions to a workshop on apologetics in early Christianity which took place at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford in the summer of 2007. The workshop was arranged by scholars from Germany, Finland and Denmark who had for some time worked together in a project on early Christian apologetics. The aim of the workshop was thus to present and discuss some of the results and still unsolved problems which arose from this project. The book presents the contributions to the workshop. Hereby the editors hope to reach a larger audience and thus to be able to further the discussion of the topic of early Christian apologetics.

List of contents

Contents: Jörg Ulrich/Anders-Christian Jacobsen/Maijastina Kahlos: Preface - Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Apologetics and Apologies - Some Definitions - John Eugene Fojtik: Tatian the Barbarian: Language, Education and Identity in the Oratio ad Graecos - Tobias Georges: Occultum and manifestum: Some Remarks on Tertullian's Apologeticum - Jakob Engberg: «From among You are We. Made, not Born are Christians»: Apologists' Accounts on Conversion before 310 AD - Maijastina Kahlos: The Rhetoric of Tolerance and Intolerance: From Lactantius to Firmicus Maternus - Markus Mertaniemi: Acerrimus inimicus: Porphyry in Christian Apologetics - Jörg Ulrich: The Reception of Greek Christian Apologetics in Theodoretus' Graecarum affectionum curatio.

About the author

The Editors: Jörg Ulrich is Professor of Early Church History in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).

Anders-Christian Jacobsen is Professor of Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark).

Maijastina Kahlos is Adjunct Professor and Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Helsinki (Finland).

Product details

• Assisted by: Anders-Christian Jacobsen (Editor), Maijastina Kahlos (Editor), Jörg Ulrich (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9783631579763
• ISBN: 978-3-631-57976-3
• No. of pages: 130
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity; Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Christentum, Altertum, Antike, Griechenland, Europäische Geschichte, Archäologie einer Periode / Region, Christi Geburt bis 1500 nach Chr., Vorzeit, Frühgeschichte vor Christi Geburt, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Archäologie - Archäologe, Christliche Apologetik; Geschichtsschreibung; Philosophiegeschichte