Bishop Theophilus wrote three documents collectively called To Autolycus. Generally treated as apology, they are examined here as protreptic literature going well beyond merely defending faith to promoting a world and life view. Furthermore, these works have convinced some scholars to regard Theophilus as a Jewish-Christian thinker. However, this article maintains that the soteriological teachings of these books identify this bishop as a heterodox theologian within a conservative second-century Christianity.
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Dods, M., `Theophilus of Antioch to Autolycus', The Ante-Nicene Fathers 2 ( Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1953 ).
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Martin, J.P., `Filon Hebreo y Teofilo Cristiano: la continuidad de una teologia natural ', Salmaticensis37 ( 1990) 302-17.
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