Christian scholars and philosophers and writers who arose near the end of the second century to defend the Christian faith from secular attack. Included men such as Aristides, Justin Martyr, his disciple Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus of Antioch, the unknown author of the Letter to Diognetus and Melito, bishop of Sardis in Asia Minor.
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