Table of Contents:
“…Introduction -- Matters of definition and qualification: an elementary review -- The Roman world of early Christianity -- The construction of Christian self-definition -- Persecution and the ambiguity of
Roman law -- Earliest Christian responses -- Christian faith and intellectual culture -- Hellenized antagonism toward Hellenism -- Philosophy as protagonist -- Brilliant diatribe -- Apology as dialogue and apeal -- Clash of the giants -- North African apologetics -- Apologist par excellence -- Apologetic as exhortation -- The unexpected pagan emperor -- Cities in conflict -- Fifth-century anti-pagan polemic expressions.…”
Call Number: BT1115 .W55 2020
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