Why the Church’s Care for the Vulnerable Requires the Reality of God’s Presence among His People

“Something Divine Mingled Among Them”: Care for the Parentless and the Poor as Ecclesial Apologetic in the Second Century: Part 2 of 5

Part 2 of a paper presented at the 2021 Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, in Fort Worth, Texas. Read part 1 here.

“Aristides,” Eusebius of Caesarea wrote in the fourth century, “has left to posterity a defense of the faith.” Despite the preservation of this defense “by a great number” of Christians in the time of Eusebius, the Apology of Ar…