Ep. 8 - Letter to Diognetus: Intro to the Apologists

Ep. 8 - Letter to Diognetus: Intro to the Apo...

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Ep. 9 - Justin Martyr: Everything Good Is Ours

"Whatever things are rightly said are ours." St. Justin looked at creation and saw Christ. He looked into the mind of Plato and found a Christian, born centuries before his time. Speaking with Romans, speaking with Greeks, speaking with Jews, he sought the good in his adversar ...

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Ep. 10 - Irenaeus of Lyons: Putting the Smack Down on Heresy

In the late second century the Church suffered an infestation of heresies — many of them, and they kept changing their claims. Into the fray God sent the great pioneer of anti-heretical literature, Irenaeus of Lyons. The title of his best known work says it all: Against Heresi ...

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