Macarius Magnes

Macarius Magnes is the author of the Apocriticus, a Christian reply to the objections of a pagan critic of the Gospels and Acts, quoted in the work. He is usually called a bishop of Magnesia and dated around 400, but his dates and place are disputed.

Dates

active ca. 400 (dates uncertain) (disputed)

See or city

Magnesia

Region

Asia Minor

Also known as

Macarius of Magnesia

Notes

Known only from his Apocriticus. The manuscript calls him Macarius of Magnesia and later writers call him a bishop of Magnesia; which Magnesia (on the Maeander or at Sipylus), and the date, are disputed, with proposals from the late third century to the early fifth.

Works

• The Apocriticus (Answers to the Pagan Critic)Apocriticus · ca. 400 (disputed) · CPG 3254 (not yet checked)