Aristides of Athens as Ecclesial Apologist: The Origins, Devotion, and Ethics of the Ancient Greeks

The final installment of chapter three in my second doctoral dissertation

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I am currently writing the dissertation for my second Ph.D., in Church History and Ecclesiology at Stellenbosch University. The tentative title of my dissertation is “Aristides of Athens as Ecclesial Apologist.” As I complete each portion, I will post the segment for anyone who wants to follow my progress. I will not be including the footnotes in these posts, so each chapter will typically be a couple thousand words longer than what’s posted here.

• Chapter 1a: “Aristides of Athens as Ecclesial Apologist: Introduction”

• Chapter 1b: “Aristides of Athens as Ecclesial Apologist: The Apologia in the Greek Barlaam and Ioasaph”

• Chapter 1c: “Aristides of Athens as Ecclesial Apologist: Syriac Text, Greek Papyri, and Armenian Translations”

• Chapter 2a: “Aristides of Athens as Ecclesial Apologist: Cosmological, Ethnological, and Doxological Apologetics”

• Chapter 2b: “Aristides of Athens as Ecclesial Apologist: How Many People-Groups Did Aristides Originally Identify—and Who Were They?”

• Chapter 2c: “Aristides of Athens as Ecclesial Apologist: Ethnological Apologetics in the Apologia of Aristides”

• Chapter 3a: “Aristides of Athens as Ecclesial Apologist: Who Were the Barbarians?”