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The Apologists are a group Christian authors dating from the second century CE who defended their Christianity against the indictments of Paganism and Judaism. Later on, the term was applied and reserved for anyone who defended the Christian theology against scientific insights, especially during the Age of Enlightenment.

Apologists of the second century
Two different documents of these apologists have been conserved. The most important apologists include:


 * Quadratus who lived c. 125 CE en worked in Athens. He wrote an apology addressed to emperor Hadrianus. His writings have not been kept.


 * Aristides. Wrote an apology addressed to emperor Antonius Pius. In 1889 a Syrian translation of his apology was found in the Saint Catherine's Monastry.


 * Justin Martyr.


 * Tatianus


 * Athenagoras of Athens. Wrote an apology addressed to emperor Marcus Aurelius in 177 CE.


 * Theophilus, bishop of Antioch: Ad Autolycum.


 * Tertullianus: Apologeticum. He was part of the Montanists.


 * Aurelius Augustinus: De civitate Dei (Concerning the City of God)


 * Letter to Diognetus

Later apologists

 * Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
 * Johannes Jacobus van Oosterzee (1817-1882)
 * Gerard Wisse (1873-1957)
 * C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
 * Alvin Plantinga (1932)
 * Josh McDowell (1939)
 * John Lennox (1943)
 * William Lane Craig (1949)
 * Stefan Paas (1969)
 * Rik Peels (1983)