Epistle to Diognetus
- Composed
- broadly c. 150–200
- What it is
- Anonymous apology
- Language
- greek
Contemporary timeline
His life beside those who lived in his time, from the year 130 to 260.
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What it is
A short anonymous apology addressed to an educated pagan, known for describing Christians as "the soul of the world". It survived in a single medieval manuscript, destroyed in 1870, and is usually grouped with the Apostolic Fathers although its genre is apologetic.
- Region
- Asia Minor
- Language
- Greek
- Type
- Anonymous apology
- Composed
- broadly c. 150–200
His writings
1 writing, c. 130–200
c. 130–200