Theodore (تواضروس أبو قرة) appears to have composed this treatise in defense of the Christian faith against the political and intellectual attacks many many of of his Jewish and Islamic contemporaries. He is also deeply concerned with the question of Christological Orthodoxy, defending the doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon against the Nestorian polemicists who seek to battle with Theodore's own West Syriac orthodoxy. His apologetic work would be preserved for some centuries with the aid of the Byzantine Church.