Epistle to Diognetus
Anonymous
Chapter 5
About this work
An elegant anonymous defense of Christianity explaining Christian worship, moral life, social belonging, and God’s saving action in Christ to an otherwise unknown inquirer named Diognetus.
- Author
- Anonymous
- Traditional attribution
- Justin Martyr (by manuscript transmission)
- Date
- c. AD 130–200
- Origin
- Unknown
- Genre
- Apology
Neither the author nor the recipient can be securely identified, and the work’s date remains debated.
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