たとえば、地球平板神話を研究したJeffery Burton Russelが認識する地球平板説をとる教父たちには以下のような人物がいる。
The early church leaders saw no need to distance themselves from the Greeks’ understanding of the Earth’s sphericity. The only identifiable flat-earthers are Lactantius (c.265-345), Cosmas Indicopleustes (c.540), Severian of Gabala (c.380), possibly Theodore of Mopsuestia (c.350-430) and possibly Diodore of Tarsus (d.394). Of these, Lactantius and Cosmas are the prime characters appearing in the Flat Earth literature. Russell discusses both of these characters in a sympathetic way, pointing out that neither was influential in their own time nor in the Medieval period.
(Jeffery Burton Russel: "Inventing The Flat Earth")
[ Scandalous Flat Earth Myth ]
また、Mark IsaakのResponseの最初に挙げられているTheophilusは次のような記述をしている。
For the Spirit being one, and holding the place of light,(2) was between the water and the heaven, in order that the darkness might not in any way communicate with the heaven, which was nearer God, before God said, "Let there be light." The heaven, therefore, being like a dome-shaped covering, comprehended matter which was like a clod. And so another prophet, Isaiah by name, spoke in these words: "It is God who made the heavens as a vault, and stretched them as a tent to dwell in."(3) The command, then, of God, that is, His Word, shining as a lamp in an enclosed chamber, lit up all that was under heaven, when He had made light apart from the world.
[ Theophilus of Antioch - To Autolycus Ad Autolycum (Translated by the Rev. Marcus Dods, A.M.) ]