Justin of Nablus

Justin of Nablus , also known like Justin Martyr or Justin the Philosopher , apologète and Christian Martyr , born with Flavia Neapolis, (current Nablus) between 100 and 114, died with Rome between 162 and 168.

Biography

He claimed to be Samaritain but his/her father and his grandfather were undoubtedly Greek or Roman, he was high in the Paganisme and profited from a rather complete education. He studied in particular the Philosophie near several schools (the Platonic deeply marked it) before converting with the Christianisme with Éphèse towards 130 and dedicating the remainder of his life to his teaching. However it renonça not with philosophy but kept on the dress of it to indicate that it had found its way. In turn, it stuck to the lesson of the Stoïciens, of the peripateticians, the pythagoricians and the disciples of Plato.

He abundantly travelled before settling with Rome at the time of its second passage in this city where he opened a school teaching the Christian faith and his rational base. This mixture caused many controversies with its fellow-members as with philosophers, in particular Crescens cynical the.

The known disciples of Justin are Evelpiste of Cappadoce, a slave of the imperial house Hierax of Phrygie, Chariton and his/her sister Charito , Péon , Libérien . He suffered the martyrdom (whip and decapitation) with 6 from his companions with Rome to have refused to sacrifice to the gods at the time where Rusticus was the prefect of the city (between 162 and 168), friend of Marc-Aurèle.

Work

In addition to its martyrdom, whose report of the official official report of the interrogation was preserved, the essence of what we know of his life comes from its clean écrits.
Fertile author, one allots to him ten works (apologies, controversies). Justin is thus the first to have exposed as a whole the Christian doctrines and the report/ratio of the faith to the reason. Its confused style, its digressions and certain inconsistencies make an author difficult of it to follow; at all events, its work mainly is lost or known by fragments or quotations. One also lent to him the writing of apologetic books of the same kind but which are posterior for him.

Here principal quotations of Justin:

Tatien, in Oratio AD Græcos , quotes it in these controversies with Crescens cynical the;
Irenee speaks about his martyrdom and Tatien as a its disciple ( Haer. I., xxviii. 1). It quotes it twice (IV., VI. 2, V., xxvi. 2), and is marked by its influence;
Tertullien makes of it mention in Adversus Valentinianos ;
just like Hippolyte and Method in their writings.

Lastly, Eusèbe de Césarée in its Histoire of the Church speaks abundantly and quotes the following works about it:

the First Apology for the Christians , addressed towards 150 to the emperor Antonin the Piles;
a continuation Second Apology addressed to the Senate or perhaps to Marc Aurèle and Lucius Verus towards 155, much shorter;
Books against all the heresies (lost);
the Speech with the Greeks (lost), a discussion with the philosophers on the nature of the gods;
Exhortation with the Greeks (lost);
the treaty On the Monarchy of God where the references to the pagan and Christian authorities are frays;
Psalmiste (lost);
the treaty On the heart (lost);
the Dialog with Tryphon , written towards 160, where he seeks to build a rabbi by the history of his conversion.

Other lost works:

Explanation on the Apocalypse ;
Against Europhorias the Sophist .

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