Accusations of Jewish persecution in early Christian sources, with particular reference to Justin Martyr and the Martyrdom of Polycarp

1998 ◽  
pp. 279-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Lieu
Keyword(s):  
Early Christian ◽  
Justin Martyr

Verbum in Corde

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Panaccio
Keyword(s):  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Philosophical Idea ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Justin Martyr ◽  
Internal Speech

Early Christian theologians such as Justin Martyr and Theophilus of Antioch borrowed the philosophical idea of internal discourse as a useful wordly comparison for understanding the engendering of the Son by the Father in the divine Trinity. Occurring first in apologetic and polemical writings, this recourse to philosophy became controversial among theologians themselves. Augustine, however, systematically developed the concept of ‘mental word’ in the context of Trinitarian theology and promoted the notion that human thought is a kind of internal speech underlying natural languages and prior to them.

scholarly journals The Holy Spirit and the early Church: The experience of the Spirit

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Van Oort
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Justin Martyr

Firstly, the present article explored the occurrence of special gifts of the Holy Spirit (charismata) both in the New Testament and in a number of early Christian writers (e.g. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian and Augustine). Secondly, it indicated how this experience of special charismata exerted its influence on the formulation of the most authoritative and ecumenical statement of belief, viz. the Creed of Nicaea-Constantinople (381).

scholarly journals Rational Theology in Polemic Strategies of Early Christian Apologues

2020 ◽  
pp. 1398-1404
Author(s):  
Roman V. Svetlov ◽  
Dmitry V. Shmonin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Rational Theology ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
Justin Martyr ◽  
The One ◽  
Size And Structure

The texts of early Christian apologists are an example of a clear argumentative reaction to a number of external and internal challenges. The internal ones included changes in the size and structure of the community, increased heterodoxia, and a decrease in eschatological moods. Among the external – on the one hand, the growth of hostility and systematic persecution on the part of Rome, on the other, the specific atmosphere of the “age of the Antonines”, age of imperators who practiced, at least formally, a policy of mercy. All this stimulated the development of rhetoric in Christian literature, the formation of the genre of Christian apology, as well as specific apologetic strategies, in which early Christian rational theology was reflected. Its most important element was the formation of ideas about a righteous life as the root condition of philosophical wisdom. It is this approach that helps, for example, Justin Martyr find a way to convert ancient wisdom into a rational-theological toolkit of apologetics

JUSTIN MARTYR AND THE LOGOS: AN APOLOGETICAL STRATEGY

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Elgersma Helleman
Keyword(s):  
Early Christian ◽  
Word Play ◽  
General Revelation ◽  
Justin Martyr

This article focuses on Justin Martyr’s apologetical intent in his use of the term ‘logos’, recognizing ambiguity and word-play. The lengthy, complex discussions of Justin’s use of ‘logos’ (from early Christian debates on subordinationism, to more recent claims of A. Harnack regarding Justin’s ‘Hellenization’), have neglected the apologetical aspect. The author highlights the epistemological character of Justin’s central part/whole argument. Accordingly, both the position which understands Justin affirming a general revelation that gives more than partial access to truth outside of Christ (H. Chadwick), as well as one which affirms an unbridgeable chasm in knowledge of truth between Christians and unbelievers (R. Holte) is rejected. While only Christ, as ‘logos’, gives the complete revelation of God, Justin denies that this truth was totally veiled to unbelievers; they are without excuse in unjustly persecuting Christians.”

A Targumic Interpretation in the Mishnah? Or a Case of Mistaken Identity?

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-210
Author(s):  
Robert Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Early Christian ◽  
Mistaken Identity ◽  
Justin Martyr

‭Interpretations of Exod. 17.11 and Num. 21.9 juxtaposed in Mishnah Rosh Ha-Shanah 3.8 bear strong resemblances to the Fragment Targum of these verses, while exhibiting certain marked differences. The Mekhilta also juxtaposes these verses using language close to that of mRH 3.6 without, however, employing terminology common to Targum and Mishnah. The same verses are explicated in tandem by the early Christian writers ‘Barnabas’ and Justin Martyr. The article explores pre-Christian interpretations of these verses and examines the wording of the Mishnah and the Targum, concluding that these texts can be regarded as extended ‘conversations’ between exegetes of different persuasions.‬

The Spirit Speaks: Pneumatological Innovation in the Scriptural Exegesis of Justin and Tertullian

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 463-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle R. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Scriptural Exegesis ◽  
Justin Martyr ◽  
Interpretive Method ◽  
Motivating Factor

This paper considers the role of the Spirit within early Christian writers’ use of prosopological exegesis, an interpretive method which seeks to identify various persons (prosopa) as the “true” speakers or addressees of a Scriptural text in which they are otherwise not in view. While scholars are increasingly recognizing that, for some early Christian writers, the Spirit could himself be a speaking agent, there remains no systematic analysis of the texts in which the Spirit speaks from his own prosopon. After making just such an analysis, focusing on key texts in the writings of Tertullian and Justin Martyr, this paper concludes that the need for divine testimony concerning both the Father and the Son was the central motivating factor for assigning ot quotations to the prosopon of the Spirit. In particular, this paper argues that this emphasis on the Spirit’s role as one who testifies is a direct outgrowth of the portrayal of the Spirit in the Johannine corpus and arose in the context of conflict with Judaism concerning the cessation of the Spirit. By making this connection, we have a new means by which to glimpse the theological dynamics at work in the pre-Nicene period that would contribute to the development of a distinctively Trinitarian, and not merely binitarian, view of God.

The Self-giving Power of God

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hill
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Divine Power ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
Justin Martyr ◽  
The Way ◽  
Power Of God

This chapter puts forward the idea of a distinctively early Christian understanding of divine power in terms of a logic driven primarily by concerns about apostolic mission and preaching. It maintains that first-century Christian authors, notably Paul and Luke in Acts, offer a reimagining of the nature of divine power in six different ways: the Christological, communicative, pneumatological, kerygmatic, pre-eminence, and weakness aspects to the concept. Further, the essay seeks to trace the way in which these features of the divine dunamis are reinterpreted, and, sometimes, extended quite radically, by three early Christian authors of very different kinds: Ignatius of Antioch, who wrote epistles to some degree after Paul; Hermas, who wrote about visions and parables in a deeply allegorical style; and Justin Martyr, an apologist who used the language and concepts of contemporary Platonism.

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