Christian School of Ancient Greek Philosophy Texts

Christian is a later grouping rather than a classical αἵρεσις. It collects Greek Christian writers from the second century into late antiquity, and the language of the holding is Greek: some of their books survive complete in that language, some are preserved as quotation within the works of opponents, and some of Origen's writings also travel in later Latin versions.

Among the second-century Greek writers are Athenagoras of Athens, Tatian the Assyrian, and Theophilus of Antioch. The Alexandrian strand of the tradition is represented by Clement, whose surviving works include the <cite>Παιδαγωγός</cite>, the <cite>Προτρεπτικὸς πρὸς Ἕλληνας</cite>, and the <cite>Στρώματα</cite>, and by Origen, whose works in this corpus include the <cite>Κατὰ Κέλσου</cite>.

Hippolytus's <cite>Κατὰ πασῶν αἱρέσεων ἔλεγχος</cite> preserves the teaching of other people rather than his own, while Eusebius of Caesarea quotes earlier books at length in his <cite>Εὐαγγελικὴ Προπαρασκευή</cite>. Later names on the list include Aeneas of Gaza, Anatolius of Alexandria, Butherus, John Philoponus of Alexandria, Nemesius of Emesa, Theodoret of Cyrus, and the <cite>Sentences of Sextus</cite>.