Description: "Leading international contributors examine the use of Paul's writings in the work of ante-Nicene apologetic writers such as Clement, Melito, Tatian and Cyprian. The volume examines apologetics as a broad genre in which many early Christian writers participated, offering rhetorical defences for emerging aspects of doctrine, rooted in understanding of the scriptures. An afterword by Todd D. Still considers whether or not Paul was an 'apologist' himself"--
Brief description:
Todd D. Still (Ph.D.University of Glasgow) is Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures at the
George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Among other publications, he is the author of Conflict at Thessalonica: A Pauline Church and Its Neighbours and the editor of Jesus and Paul Reconnected: Fresh Pathways into an Old Debate.
Review Quotes: "The Apologists and Paul is a must-have resource for libraries catering to scholars and postgraduate students engaged in the study of early Christianity. A comparable combination of detailed studies with a wide-ranging breadth of coverage specifically dedicated to the apologists is difficult to find in the many other excellent works on Pauline reception in ante-Nicene Christianity." --Biblical and Early Christian Studies