Word: diognetus
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Letter to Diognetus. But Van Dusen is confident of the outcome. "As one hops quickly from continent to continent and country to country, almost everything changes-climate, clothes, color of skin, customs, language, outlook. There is only one thing . . . which is everywhere the same: Christians and the Christian church...
...century, an unknown Christian wrote to his friend, Diognetus: 'What the soul is in the body, that Christians are in the world . . . Christians hold the world together . . .' It may be that history's most important verdict upon these troubled times . . . will be: 'Christianity held the world together...
Soul & Body. High point of The Apostolic Fathers is the "Letter to Diognetus." Written in the form of a letter to a pagan to describe "this new group or institute" which calls itself "Christian," its moving characterization of the sect is still a counsel of perfection. Excerpt: "Christians are not different from the rest of men in nationality, speech or customs; they do not live in states of their own, nor do they use a special language, nor adopt a peculiar way of life. Their teaching is not the kind of thing that could be discovered by the wisdom...
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