caa a22 4500 386358362 CHVBK 20180307111905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3168465 doi S000964070006649X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3168465 Thom Johan C. assistant professor of Greek in the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa. The Journey Up and Down: Pythagoras in Two Greek Apologists [Elektronische Daten] [Johan C. Thom] One of the major goals of the early Christian apologists was to demonstrate the cultural acceptability of Christianity. In order to achieve this goal, a number of them (notably Justin, Tatian, Athenagoras, and Theophilus of Antioch) drew comparisons between doctrines of the Greek philosophical tradition and those of Christianity, usually demonstrating the uniqueness and superiority of the latter. They thus unwittingly preserved for us doxographical data concerning Greek philosophers, some of which is to be found nowhere else. When we meet with such a doxographical hapax legomenon, we are faced with the problem of its reliability, since we lack comparative data. Does the author in question give a reliable version of the tradition, or does he misrepresent it because of his own inadequate understanding of the material? Copyright © American Society of Church History 1989 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 58/3(1989-09), 299-308 0009-6407 58:3<299 1989 58 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3168465 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3168465 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Thom Johan C. assistant professor of Greek in the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 58/3(1989-09), 299-308 0009-6407 58:3<299 1989 58 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge