patristic · apology · c. 180 · Greek
Three books written to a learned pagan who had asked to be shown the Christian God: the first on why the instrument must be fit before it can receive, the second on creation against the eternity of matter and on the biblical chronology against the Greek historians, the third on the moral charges. Eusebius catalogues all three by title, along with a fourth work against Hermogenes which is lost and in which he says Theophilus argued from the Apocalypse of John.
To: Autolycus, a cultivated pagan friend