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• Clement of Alexandria, 150-215 (opens new windowabout)
  • sample titles: Stromateis. Books one to three; Clement of Alexandria; Christ the educator; Alexandrian Christianity; selected translations of Clement and Origen with introductions and notes b
  • influenced by Philo's allegorical method
  • believed higher truths can be communicated only through symbol
  • differentiated three senses of Scripture: literal, moral, and allegorical (prophetic)
• Athenagoras c. 133–c. 190 (opens new windowabout)
  • sample titles: Embassy for the Christians. The resurrection of the dead
  • Athenian philosopher and apologist
• Theophilus, active 2nd c.; d. c. 183–185 (opens new windowabout)
  • sample titles: Ad Autolycum [by] Theophilus of Antioch; text and translation [from the Greek]
  • 7th bishop of Antioch (c. 169–c. 183)
  • wrote the Apology to Autolycus
  • described by Eusebius as defender of the faith
  • precursor to the great apologists
• Tatian, c. 120-173 (opens new windowabout)
  • sample title: A Greek fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron, from Dura
• Caius
• Commodianc. 250
  • Christian Latin poet
  • converted to Christianity late in life
• Origen, 184-255 (opens new windowabout)
  • father Leonides (about) was martyred
  • student of Clement (about)
  • succeeded Clement in heading catechetical school, c. 203
  • profound Bible scholar
  • studied philosophy under Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonist
  • wrote Against Celsus
• Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, c.200-258 (about)
  • sample titles: The letters of St. Cyprian of Carthage; The tradition of manuscripts; a study in the transmission of St. Cyprian's treatises.
  • led the church during persecution, schism, and plague
• Tertullian, c. 160-225 (opens new windowabout)
  • sample titles: DELPHI COMPLETE WORKS OF TERTULLIAN (ILLUSTRATED); Tertullian; Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire the witness of Tertullian
  • wrote Apology, 197
  • wrote polemical works, e.g., Adversus Marcionem
  • joined the Montanists c. 212
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• Sextus Julius Africanus, c. 160-c.240 (opens new windowabout)
  • sample title: Cesti : the extant fragments
  • student of Origen
• Hippolytus, c. 170-235 or 236 (opens new windowabout)
  • sample titles: Refutation of all heresies; On the apostolic tradition; The treatise on the Apostolic tradition of St. Hippolytus of Rome, bishop and martyr
  • student of Irenaeus
  • antipope
• Novatian, c. 200-c. 258 (about)
  • antipope who was consecrated as pope in 251 and later excommunicated
  • first Roman theologian to use the Latin language
• Gregory Thaumaturgus, c. 213-c. 270 (opens new windowabout)
  • sample title: St Gregory Thaumaturgus : life and works
  • student of Origen
  • wonderworker
• Dionysius of Alexandria, c. 190-265
  • student of Origen
  • successor to Heraclas in 232 as head of catechetical school
  • successor to Heraclas as bishop of Alexandria, 247
  • argued that the book of Revelation was not authored by the disciple John
  • correspondence is detailed in the works of Eusebius
• Anatolius, d. c.282
  • became bishop of Laodiceain 268
• Lactantius, c. 240-320 (opens new windowabout)
  • sample title: The divine institutes, books I-VII.
• Marius Victorinus, c. end of 3rd c.-after 363, (opens new windowabout),
  • sample titles: Marius Victorinus' Commentary on Galatians introduction, translation, and notes; Theological treatises on the Trinity
  • in Epistolam Pauliad Galatas
  • Opera theologica ("Theological Treatises on the Trinity")
  • explains the inner life of the Trinity using Neoplatonism