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  • patristic literature
    / Late 2nd to early 4th century

    were Theognostus (flourished 250–280) and Pierius (flourished 280–300), both heads of the catechetical school and apparently propagators of Origen’s ideas. But there are two others of note, Dionysius of Alexandria (c. 200–c. 265) and Gregory Thaumaturgus (c. 213–c. 270), of whose works some fragments have survived. Dionysius of Alexandria wrote…

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    were Theognostus (flourished 250–280) and Pierius (flourished 280–300), both heads of the catechetical school and apparently propagators of Origen’s ideas. But there are two others of note, Dionysius of Alexandria (c. 200–c. 265) and Gregory Thaumaturgus (c. 213–c. 270), of whose works some fragments have survived. Dionysius of Alexandria wrote…

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