How Generosity to the Poor Prepares God’s People for Martyrdom
“Something Divine Mingled Among Them”: Care for the Parentless and the Poor as Ecclesial Apologetic in the Second Century: Part 4 of 5
Part 4 of a paper presented at the 2021 Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, in Fort Worth, Texas. Read part 3 here.
The Epistle to Diognetus is one of the most eloquent texts from the early church. Despite an abundance of hypotheses, the identity of the author remains uncertain. The attacks that the author counters in the treatise are typical…
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