What I am Reading

I am reading “Letter to Diogentus” as part of my doctoral work.  It is a bit ironic since no one knows for certain who wrote it, only who it was written to.  The letter does contain some valuable content.  The author has written this epistle in order to describe certain characteristics about the Christian faith.  Specifically, who is the God Christians believe in, how they worship Him “so that all disdain the world and despise death and neither account those to be gods who are esteemed such by the Greeks, nor observe the superstition of the Jews; and what is the affection which they have for one another; and why it is that this new race of men or mode of living has entered into our world now and not formerly.”