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| Apologist; childishness of pagan teachings contrasted with Scripture on creation, worship of God, and the moral life; creation 5695 years before death of Marcus Aurelius | |
| Apology addressed to a tutor of the emperor Marcus Aurelius; written during a time of persecution | |
| A jurisconsult, at Rome; very little known about his writings; the one extant work is a supposed argument between the heathen Caecilius and the Christian Octavius | |
| Left stoic teacher-knew nothing about God; left Peripatetic-demanded money; Pythagorean refused him until he learned music, geometry; Platonic teacher; converted to Christianity | |
| Anti-Montanist Greek, probably from Asia Minor; work is lost, even title is unknown; quotes St. John's Revelation, mentions tradition of St. John raising a dead man in Ephesus | |
| A sermon on self-control, repentance, and judgment; fasting is better than prayer, but alms-giving is better than both | |
| Authorship unknown, possibly multiple authors; included in the Sinaitic Codex and Codex Claromontanus; allegory in the form of 5 visions; Son of God is distinguished from Jesus | |
| Bishop of Hierapolis; Nothing survives of his writings except for a few extracts, longest of which relates to the date of Passover; traces teachings of heretics to the pagans | |
| All we know of him is from Eusebius; states Dionysius the Areopagite was the first Bishop of Athens; testifies of the generosity of the Roman Church | |
| Bishop of Jerusalem; 'if evil things are qualities of matter, and if the Lord of all changed its qualities for the better, whence, it behooves us to ask, come evil things?' | |
| Oldest surviving Christian catechism; mentions the Eucharist without any reference to the Resurrection; emphasis on alms and generosity, be careful to whom charity is given | |
| Athenian philosopher; Apologist; Writes to Emperors Marcus Aurelius and son Commodus on behalf of Christians; establishes principle of monotheism on the basis of pagan writings | |
| Almost all we know of him is from Eusebius; wrote against Gnostics and Marcion; went on a journey from Corinth to Rome, meeting many bishops -- was amazed at the unity of dogma | |
| Bishop of Ephesus; knew Polycarp, Irenaeus; presided over a local council on the date of Pascha (Easter) | |
| Rigorist; Antipope; Became reconciled to the Church shortly before his death; fought Modalism to the point that he overemphasized the distinction between the Persons of the Trinity | |
| Teacher of Clement of Alexandria; head of Catechetical School; anticipated Clement and Origen in the study of Greek philosophy, as an aid to theology | |
| Wrote an epistle to the Philippians, in response to a request from them for words of exhortation; disciple of Apostle John; warns against apostasy | |
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| Head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria; the perfect Christian is the true gnostic; wealth is not condemned by the Gospel as intrinsically evil, morality depends on use | |
| Eusebius called him a man of small mental capacity; preferred 'the living voice' to books; earliest tradition of the authorship of the Mark | |
| Taught by Apostle John; Obey bishop, as God the Father, priest, as God the Son, deacon as God the Holy Spirit; tradition says he was the Child Christ took up in His arms Mk 9:35 | |
| Pupil of Tatian; Eusebius tells us he intended to furnish original solutions of Scriptural problems sated by Tatian | |
| The Father of Latin Christianity; jurisconsult, at Rome; priest in Carthage; joins Montanists, later leaving them, founding his own sect, which is later reconciled to the Church | |
| A lesser known teacher of Clement of Alexandria; opposition to the Quartodecimans; appeals to Alexandria as authoritative | |
| Noted for reference to the Gospel of Peter in which he warned of the erroneous character of this Gospel | |
| A eunich, or possibly merely a virgin; held the Quartodeciman theory; taught the duality of Christ's Natures | |
| Taught by a disciple of the Apostle John; emphasizes Apostolic succession because bishops are the guardians of tradition; doctrine of recapitulation | |
| An epistle written to the Corinthians, who still suffer from many of the same problems the Apostle Paul addressed | |
| Pupil of Justin Martyr; in his later years became an Encratite; Adam was beyond salvation | |
| The first Christian apologist; hearer of the Apostles; Eusebius erroneously reports that Hadrian responded with a favorable edict | |
| Converted to Christianity by the preaching of the Apostle Paul during the Areopagus sermon | |
| Letter from Church of Smyrna; pressed to deny Christ by saying 'Away with the Atheists!', the bishop points to crowd, and says, 'Away with the Atheists!' | |
| Chaldaeans worship elements/planets; Greeks fallible beings; Egyptians animals; Jews better but worship angels/ritual; Christians best, Jesus Christ, pure love and benevolence | |
| Gives valuable evidence of the deaths of Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome; held the Apocalypse was a work of the Gnostic Cerinthus | |
| Said to have castrated himself; condemned by the 5th Ecumenical Council; extremely influential theologian | |
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