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Quadratus (3), the author of an apology for the Christians, presented to the emperor Hadrian (regn. 117-138). Eusebius (H. E. iv. 3) says the work was still in circulation in his time and that he himself was acquainted with it. He quotes one sentence which proves, as he observes, the great antiquity of the work.…

Quadratus was one of the first of the Christian apologists. He is said to have presented his apology to Hadrian while the emperor was in Athens attending the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries. The period of the emperor Hadrian, during which Quadratus is said to have made his apology, was from 117 CE to 138…

Unlike the other gospels, Luke begins his account with a description of what he’s writing and why. We can’t verify all of it (including the existence of the named recipient “Theophilus”), but much of the rest of it is easily confirmed. (I’m getting most of this from the section on Luke in Raymond Brown’s An…

Theophilus (4), bp. of Antioch (Eus. H. E. iv. 20; Hieron. Ep. ad Algas. quaest. 6), succeeded Eros c. 171, and was succeeded by Maximin c. 183, according to Clinton (Fasti Romani), but the dates are only approximations. His death may probably be placed c. 183-185 (Lightfoot, S. Ignatius, vol. ii. p. 166). We gather…

Theophilus of Antioch wrote c. 180-185 CE.

[a.d. 177.] In placing Athenagoras here, somewhat out of the order usually accepted, I commit no appreciable violence against chronology, and I gain a great advantage for the reader. To some extent we must recognise, in collocation, the principles of affinity and historic growth. Closing up the bright succession of the earlier Apologists, this favourite…

Athenagoras of Athens was a philosopher who converted to Christianity in the second century. Athenagoras wrote his Plea for Christians approximately in 177 CE. Athenagoras also wrote On the Resurrection of the Dead.

[a.d. 210.] Though Tertullian is the founder of Latin Christianity, his contemporary Minucius Felix gives to Christian thought its earliest clothing in Latinity. The harshness and provincialism, with the Graecisms, if not the mere Tertullianism, of Tertullian, deprive him of high claims to be classed among Latin writers, as such; but in Minucius we find,…