Defending and Defining the Faith

Defending and Defining the Faith
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 485
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ISBN-10 : 9780190620509
ISBN-13 : 0190620501
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Book Synopsis Defending and Defining the Faith by : Daniel H. Williams

Download or read book Defending and Defining the Faith written by Daniel H. Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Early Christian Apologetics, D.H. Williams offers a first comprehensive presentation of Christian apologetic literature from the second to the fifth century CE. Williams argues that most apologies were not directed at a pagan readership. In most cases, ancient apologetics had a double object: to instruct the Christian and persuade weak Christians or non-Christians who were sympathetic to Christian claims. Taken cumulatively, he finds, apologetic literature was integral to the formation of the Christian identity in the Roman world


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