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Reviews REVIEWS Michele Pellegrino, Studi su l'antica apologetica = Storia e Letteratura n. 14, Roma 1947. XII & 210 pp. This useful book contains four studies bearing on apologetic litterature. The most important is the first: "L'elemento propagandistico e protrettico negli Apo.logetici greci del II secolo" (pp. 1-65): Dr Pellegrino starts from a thorough discussion of Professor Ubaldi's theory (for which cf. the latter's work: Atenagora, La Supplica per i cristiani, Torino 1933, XLI, n. 1 and XLVI) that the so-called 'Christian apologies' in reality were no apologies at all, but propagandistic writings which served the purpose of stopping the persecutions by the only possible means, viz., by making the fundamental tenets of Christianity plausible to pagans. Undoubtedly Ubaldi's view was exaggerated, and Dr Pellegrino has little trouble in proving that from this litterature truly apologetic motives are never quite absent; on the other hand Ubaldi was certainly right in emphasizing the importance of propagandistic elements, and Dr Pellegrino's endeavour to follow the evolution of these elements in the x4,ovypa Iletoov, the apologies of Aristides, Justin, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and the Epistula ad Diognetum may be qualified as successful. I should like to draw special attention to the discussion http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vigiliae Christianae Brill

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Vigiliae Christianae , Volume 1 (1): 249 – Jan 1, 1947
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Brill
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© 1947 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-6032
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10.1163/157007247X00214
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REVIEWS Michele Pellegrino, Studi su l'antica apologetica = Storia e Letteratura n. 14, Roma 1947. XII & 210 pp. This useful book contains four studies bearing on apologetic litterature. The most important is the first: "L'elemento propagandistico e protrettico negli Apo.logetici greci del II secolo" (pp. 1-65): Dr Pellegrino starts from a thorough discussion of Professor Ubaldi's theory (for which cf. the latter's work: Atenagora, La Supplica per i cristiani, Torino 1933, XLI, n. 1 and XLVI) that the so-called 'Christian apologies' in reality were no apologies at all, but propagandistic writings which served the purpose of stopping the persecutions by the only possible means, viz., by making the fundamental tenets of Christianity plausible to pagans. Undoubtedly Ubaldi's view was exaggerated, and Dr Pellegrino has little trouble in proving that from this litterature truly apologetic motives are never quite absent; on the other hand Ubaldi was certainly right in emphasizing the importance of propagandistic elements, and Dr Pellegrino's endeavour to follow the evolution of these elements in the x4,ovypa Iletoov, the apologies of Aristides, Justin, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and the Epistula ad Diognetum may be qualified as successful. I should like to draw special attention to the discussion

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Published: Jan 1, 1947

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