Jared Secord is an academic strategist at the University of Calgary.

“This book is a welcome addition to a growing movement by classicists and ancient historians to examine early Christian authors within the horizons of Roman imperial culture (the so-called Second Sophistic). Secord brings to the task an unusually strong command of the scholarship and the Christian texts, married to a firm grasp of the history and non-Christian intellectual trends of the first three centuries CE. Scholars who work with equal comfort on both sides of the pagan-Christian divide are rare; this is a book that scholars in both disciplines will read with profit.”—Kendra Eshleman, author of The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire: Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emperors, Intellectuals, and the World of the Roman Empire2. Justin Martyr: A Would-Be Public Intellectual3. Tatian Versus the Greeks: Diversity in Christian Intellectual Culture4. Christian Intellectuals and Cultural Change in the Third CenturyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Jared Secord is an academic strategist at the University of Calgary.

“This book is a welcome addition to a growing movement by classicists and ancient historians to examine early Christian authors within the horizons of Roman imperial culture (the so-called Second Sophistic). Secord brings to the task an unusually strong command of the scholarship and the Christian texts, married to a firm grasp of the history and non-Christian intellectual trends of the first three centuries CE. Scholars who work with equal comfort on both sides of the pagan-Christian divide are rare; this is a book that scholars in both disciplines will read with profit.”—Kendra Eshleman, author of The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire: Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emperors, Intellectuals, and the World of the Roman Empire2. Justin Martyr: A Would-Be Public Intellectual3. Tatian Versus the Greeks: Diversity in Christian Intellectual Culture4. Christian Intellectuals and Cultural Change in the Third CenturyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Jared Secord is an academic strategist at the University of Calgary.

“This book is a welcome addition to a growing movement by classicists and ancient historians to examine early Christian authors within the horizons of Roman imperial culture (the so-called Second Sophistic). Secord brings to the task an unusually strong command of the scholarship and the Christian texts, married to a firm grasp of the history and non-Christian intellectual trends of the first three centuries CE. Scholars who work with equal comfort on both sides of the pagan-Christian divide are rare; this is a book that scholars in both disciplines will read with profit.”—Kendra Eshleman, author of The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire: Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emperors, Intellectuals, and the World of the Roman Empire2. Justin Martyr: A Would-Be Public Intellectual3. Tatian Versus the Greeks: Diversity in Christian Intellectual Culture4. Christian Intellectuals and Cultural Change in the Third CenturyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex