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Later Apologists

  • Hippolytus of Rome, 170-236
    • Refutatio Omnium Haeresium
  • Apollinaris, bishop of Hierapolis
  • Arnobius of Sicca (the elder), 253–c. 337:
    • apologist during reign of Diocletian
    • convert from paganism
    • wrote Adversus nationes
  • Clement of Alexandria
  • Origen
  • Lactantius
  • Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, c. 260-c. 340
  • Tertullian, c. 160-c. 230 : see also Ante-Nicene Fathers
    • Adversus Marcionem
    • De praescriptione haereticorum (On the prescription against heretics)
  • Augustine
    • on heresy
  • Marcus Minucius Felix, d. c. 250
    • Octavius
  • Epiphanius of Salamis, c. 310-403
    • Panárion: lists 80 heresies
  • Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus (or Cyr), c. 393 - d. before 466: see Antiochene School
    • opposed Cyril's teachings
    • Haereticarum fabularum compendium
  • John of Damascus
    • on heresies
  • ​John Chrysostom, d. 407
    • The Discourse on Blessed Babylas and against the Greeks
      • ​written between 363 and 380
    • Demonstration Against the Pagans That Christ Is God

Second-Century Apologists

  • Quadratus
    • Apology written to Hadrian, 125
    • survives only as quoted fragment in Eusebius' History (4.3.1–2)
    • fragment refers to the miracles of Jesus
  • Aristides, early 2nd c.
    • Apology
  • Justin Martyr, c. 100-c. 165
    • calls Simon Magus the first heretic in Sýntagma
  • Tatian, c.120–c. 173
    • pupil of Justin
    • Diatessaron
  • Melito of Sardis, d. 190
  • Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, c. 135–200
    • disciple of Polycarp
    • Adversus haereses (Valentinius and Gnosticism)
  • Theophilus of Antioch, d. 181
  • Athenagoras of Athens, active 2nd c.
    • convert from Platonism
  • Hegesippus, 2nd c.
    • Memorials
  • Epistle to Diognetus, late 2nd c.
  • Philastrius, bishop of Brescia
    • Diversarum haereseon liber

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