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Athenagoras
Athenagoras
133 CE–190 CE · Alexandria
Athenagoras (c. 133-190 AD) was a Christian philosopher, traditionally called 'of Athens' though later associated with Alexandria, who addressed his 'Plea for the Christians' to the Roman emperors around 177 AD. With philosophical skill he refuted charges of atheism, cannibalism, and immorality leveled at believers, and defended monotheism. A second work, 'On the Resurrection of the Dead,' argues for bodily resurrection. He represents the cultured apologetic tradition that sought to make Christianity intelligible to educated Greco-Roman readers.
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What they did here
Associated with Alexandria.
Alexandria in this era
Under Roman imperial rule, Alexandria hosted the Catechetical School (Didascaleion), where Clement and then Origen turned the city into early Christianity's foremost theological workshop, pioneering allegorical Scripture interpretation and systematic theology in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries.
In Alexandria at the same time
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Yochanan HaSandlar, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Valentinus, Harpocration
Works(4)
The Resurrection of the Dead
Alexandria · 190
A Plea for the Christians
Alexandria · 190