Curated category
Christian apologists
- Thomas AquinasIn the year 1244, a young man named Thomas Aquinas sat bound in the stone tower of Monte San Giovanni Campano. He was nineteen years old and dressed in the…
- C. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis was born on the 29th of November 1898 in Belfast, Ulster. His father Albert James Lewis worked as a solicitor while his mother Florence…
- IrenaeusIrenaeus was born in the city of Smyrna, now known as İzmir, Turkey, during the first half of the second century. His birth likely occurred between 120 and…
- TertullianIn the year 197, a man named Tertullian stood before the magistrates of Carthage and declared that Christians were not born but made.
- OrigenIn 202, a seventeen-year-old named Origen stood in the city of Alexandria and watched his father Leonides be dragged away to execution.
- Augustine of HippoIn 354, Augustine was born in the small North African town of Thagaste. His mother Monica was a devout Christian who prayed constantly for his conversion.
- LactantiusLucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was born into a family that had not converted to Christianity. He hailed from Punic or Berber origins in the region of…
- JeromeEusebius Sophronius Hieronymus was born at Stridon around 342 to 347 AD. He carried Illyrian ancestry through his family line.
- ArnobiusArnobius died around the year 330, marking the end of a life that began in North Africa. Before he became a Christian apologist, this Berber man was a…
- Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal was born on the 19th of June 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His mother Antoinette Begon died when he was three years old.
- Charles DukeCharles Moss Duke Jr. was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the 3rd of October 1935. He arrived into the world just six minutes before his identical twin…