
Episode 90: Ante-Nicene Catholicism
Literature and History
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Justin Martyr's Autobiography
Justin Martyr and Clement of Alexandria each came to Christianity with backgrounds in the respectable Greek ideologies of the second century. This echo-Roman intellectual medley fit well together with Christianity, says Julian Zelizer. The new ideology that they were adopting wasn't radically different than the ones that they had held before, he adds.
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