Lecture Notes Outline
- The Apostolic Fathers (late 1st - mid-2nd century)
- Clement of Rome
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Polycarp of Smyrna
- Rapid Christian growth in lower classes of urban areas
- Martyrdom (“witnessing”)
- Attractive morality
- Compassion in action
- The Apologists (mid-2nd - mid-3rd century)
- Justin Martyr
- Irenaeus of Lyons
- Clement of Alexandria
- Origen
- Tertullian
- Combating early heresies:
- Gnosticism
- Ebionism
- Marcionism
- Montanism