Concept
Justin Martyr
Overview
Justin Martyr (Greek: Ἰουστῖνος ὁ Μάρτυς, romanized: Ioustînos ho Mártys; c. 90–100 AD – 165 AD), also known as Justin the Philosopher, was an early Christian apologist and philosopher. The First Apology, his most well-known text, passionately defends the morality of the Christian life and provides various arguments to convince the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius to abandon persecution of the Church. Justin also indicates that historical manifestations of the Logos predated Christ's incarnation, and that many historical Greek philosophers (including Socrates and Plato) were unknowing Christians.
Justin was martyred, along with some of his students, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius around the year 165, and is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, Lutheran Churches, and in Anglicanism.
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And since Aristotle began to reason while walking hither and thither, they were called, he, I say, and his companions, Peripatetics, which means the same as walkers about. And since the perfection of this Morality by Aristotle was attained, the name of Academician became extinct, and all those who attached themselves to this sect are called Peripatetics, and these people hold the doctrine of the government of the…
Dante Alighieri, The Banquet
States what Justin Martyr is.
And a few lines before he saith: _But I, and as many as are _Christians_, in all things right in their opinions, believe both that there shall be a resurrection of the flesh, and a thousand years life at _Jerusalem_ built, adorned and enlarged_.
Isaac Newton, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
Close in meaning to Justin Martyr; the term itself is not named.
For instance, when St. Laurence refused to deliver to Cornelius Secularius, the Roman prefect, the money belonging to the Christians which he had in his custody, was it not very natural for the prefect and the emperor to be incensed at this refusal? They did not know that St. Laurence had distributed this money among the poor, in acts of charity and benevolence; therefore they considered him only as a refractory…
Voltaire, The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IV of XLIII. Romances, Vol. III of III, and A Treatise on Toleration.
Close in meaning to Justin Martyr; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Justin Martyr
- Epicurus
- Heraclitus
- Marcus Aurelius
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Hippolytus of Rome
- Herman Dooyeweerd
- Crescens the Cynic
Related ideas
- Eusebius
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Greco-Roman world
- Jesus
- First Epistle to the Corinthians
- Ancient philosophy
- Gospel of John
- Antoninus Pius
- Gospel
- Hebrew language
- Hadrian
- Philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Judaism
- Jerome
- Byzantine Empire
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Latin
- Albrecht Ritschl
- Middle Platonism
- Cynicism (philosophy)
- Stoicism
- Messiah
- Marcus Aurelius
Place in the tradition
Part of Cynicism (philosophy).