COMPLETE WORKS: Dialogue with Trypho First Apology Second Apology

by Justin Martyr

JUSTIN Martyr was an educated Christian a defender of his faith from the attacks of both Jews and Gentiles.
Justin lived between 114 and 165 A.D. He was born in Samaria and was a Gentile. His personal quest for Truth, after approaching Greek philosophy, led him to the person of Jesus. It is commonly believed that he travelled to Ephesus and that later he resided in Rome.
His personal witness to true philosophy found in the faith of Jesus Christ climaxed in his martyrdom.
In his Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius, bishop of Cesarea, describes Justin as a true lover of philosophy.
I am sure his writings will be a blessing and an encouragement for today’s Church, but also a source of teachings on Christian doctrine. Justin’s writings are an amazing historical document. But we would do him no justice if we relegated the meaning of Justin’s intellectual production to the past. His writings are meaningful and inspiring to this day for every authentic Christian who has to give an account of his faith and beliefs to a world that often is hostile, for no true reason.

275 pages, Paperback

Published February 3, 2022

About the author

Justin Martyr, also known as Saint Justin (c. 100–165 CE), was an early Christian apologist, and is regarded as the foremost interpreter of the theory of the Logos in the 2nd century. He was martyred, alongside some of his students, and is considered a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Most of his works are lost, but two apologies and a dialogue did survive. The First Apology, his most well known text, passionately defends the morality of the Christian life, and provides various ethical and philosophical arguments to convince the Roman emperor, Antoninus, to abandon the persecution of the fledgling sect. Further, he also makes the theologically-innovative suggestion that the "seeds of Christianity" (manifestations of the Logos acting in history) actually predated Christ's incarnation. This notion allows him to claim many historical Greek philosophers (including Socrates and Plato), in whose works he was well studied, as unknowing Christians. (Wikipedia)