Justin Martyr

Abstract

The paper provides significant and comprehensive discussion on the Justin Martyr who was later becomes the famous saint of 1st and 2nd century. Justin Martyr is famous for his work for Christians and Christian Philosophy. He is famous for his First and Second Apology which is still an important Christian writing and is considered as a golden philosophy. The paper also discusses the Dialogues with Trypho, which is again a vital writing of Justin.

Justin Martyr

Introduction

Justin Martyr was one of the early Christian philosophers, and one of the early Christian apologists, author of the First and Second Christian apologetics Christian apologetics. Justin was born in the late 1st century in a pagan family at Flavia Neapolis (Nablus) in Samaria. When he was young he studied in depth the philosophy of time and was later in contact with Jewish and Christian sacred texts, which took him around the year 130, to become a Christian, in Ephesus, Asia Minor. There he wrote his Dialogue with Trypho, which aimed to demonstrate that Jesus is the fulfillment in life and in death, the Law and the Prophets. He moved to Rome, where he opened a school of Christian philosophy and wrote an 'Apology in defense of the Christian faith, which represented the same time starting a dialogue with the pagan culture of his time. Back in Rome, after a few trips to other cities of the Empire, was denounced by the philosopher Justin Ascending as "atheist," the enemy, i.e., the State and its cults. With a second Apology tried in vain to prove his innocence. In about 165, the prefect of Rome, Rustic, condemned him to be beheaded along with six other fellow believers: Chariton, Charito, Evelpisto, Ierace, Peon and Liberian. Justin Martyr, born at Flavia Neapolis (Shechem, Nablus), was a Christian philosopher, teacher, and is considered the most important early church apologist of the 2nd Jhd.s AD

After his philosophical training in the middle Platonism in Ephesus it was his conversion to Christianity, he remained in the middle Platonism towards a positive attitude. Then he saw himself as a "Christian philosopher" and appeared first in Palestine and called the Samaritans as his people, and he later was a teacher in Rome, at a time when his school was relatively independent of the Roman church leadership.

Discussion

In the middle of second century, all the Christians were under maltreatment and wild rumor, and allegation were made about the mystery they conduct in their Sunday worship. Saint Justin Martyr, was also a convert from paganism, and proposed his two apologies for explaining and defending Christianity as a sensible religion entrenched in the reality and experienced in good worth and thus commendable of toleration rather than persecution. All of his writings, including the two apologies, are intended to clarify the belief of Christians, their moral code, and their sacramental rites.

Justin First Apology

On several occasions in this work, Justin affirms that the message of a crucified savior lies at the heart of the Christian ...