The Second-Century Apologists

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Three men explaining the faith to a hostile empire around A.D. 170 — a sharp-tongued convert, a bishop writing to a friend, and a philosopher asking the Emperor to stop killing people who refuse to kill. Modern English, checked against the Greek.

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Tatian: Address to the Greeks

1Higher Than Fate2The Soul and the Demons3We Have Left You4The Barbarian Books5Moses Older Than Homer

Tatian: Fragments

1Marriage, Food, and Light

Theophilus to Autolycus

1Show Me Your Man2The Resurrection You Can See3Where Have the Gods Gone4The Six Days’ Work5The Garden and the Tree6Neither Mortal nor Immortal7The Sibyl and the Poets8Writers Who Flay the Air9Counting Back to Adam10The Whole Number of Years

Athenagoras: A Plea for the Christians

1Punished for a Name2Younger Than Their Makers3The Gods Had a Beginning4Demons Behind the Statues5Judged Down to the Thought

Athenagoras: On the Resurrection of the Dead

1Nothing God Cannot Gather2Scattered and Gathered Again3Why God Made Us4Not the Soul Alone5What Human Beings Are For