In case we’ve forgotten: “There is no doubt that Christian writers prior to the fourth century can be legitimately classed as philosophers… Thinkers such as Justin Martyr & Origen… operated as independent teachers & may… plausibly be compared to contemporaneous philosophers.”
Johannes Zachhuber, The Rise of Christian Theology & the End of Ancient Metaphysics (Oxford, 2021), 5.
D. L. Dusenbury 