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Revision as of 01:10, 23 November 2004 by Gary D (talk | contribs) (Update and add categories)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Early Christians were Christians in the period before there was an established Christian orthodoxy. While there is no specific date at which the Early Christian period ends, the term usually refers to the first 300–500 years of the Christian era.
Among those writers commonly referred to as Early Christian are:
- Clement of Rome
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Papias
- Polycarp of Smyrna
- Justin Martyr
- Tatian
- Athenagorus
- Irenaeus
- Clement of Alexandria
- Tertullian
- Hippolytus
- Origen
- Cyprian
- Dionysius of Alexandria
- Arnobius
- Lactantius
The term is less often, but with equal validity, applied to the authors of the books of the New Testament.
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