TATIAN [Tatian] , 2d cent., Christian apologist. Probably born in Syria, he was a pupil of Justin Martyr . After his master's death, he left Christianity, becoming an Encratitic Gnostic—i.e., he regarded all matter as evil and denied the salvation of Adam. While a Christian, he wrote Oratio ad Graecos [address to the Greeks] (152-55), a defense of Christianity bolstered by a bitter attack on Greek arts, philosophers, and institutions, and the Diatessaron, a harmony of the four Gospels that was long the only life of Jesus available in Syria.
Author not available, TATIAN., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2006
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