“Whatever things are rightly said are ours.” St. Justin looked at creation and saw Christ. He looked into the mind of Plato and found a Christian, born centuries before his time. Speaking with Romans, speaking with Greeks, speaking with Jews, he sought the good in his adversaries’ best ideas and showed that the good belonged properly to Christ and Christians. Though he lived in the second century, his description of the Mass was used in the Church’s 20th-century Catechism. He showed us how to be fearless in the face of ideas, and fearless even in the face of death.
Links
Free audiobook of Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/st-justin-martyr-dialogue-with-trypho/
Free text of Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/view.cfm?recnum=1612
Free text of Justin Martyr’s First Apology https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/view.cfm?recnum=1610
Free text of Justin Martyr’s Second Apology https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/view.cfm?recnum=1611
A contemporary account of Justin’s martyrdom https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/view.cfm?recnum=1618
An excellent popular study of Justin Martyr https://www.amazon.com/Case-Christianity-Arguments-Religious-Judicial/dp/158979575X/
More works by the Fathers https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/
Mike Aquilina’s website https://fathersofthechurch.com
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Theme music: Gaudeamus (Introit for the Feast of All Saints), sung by Jeff Ostrowski. Courtesy of http://www.ccwatershed.org.
4.13 The Heresies—Pelagianism and the Seeds of Calvinism
4.12 The Heresies — The “Spirit-fighters” and the Aftermath of Nicaea
4.11 The Heresies — Arianism: A Man Who Became a God
4.10 The Heresies — Rebaptism and the Donatists
4.9 Novatian: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Part 2 (The Bad and the Ugly)
4.8 Novatian: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Part 1 (The Good)
4.7 The Heresies – Modalism: God as a Monad with Three Names
4.6 The Heresies – The Enigma of Origen and Origenism
4.5 The Heresies – Gnosticism: Christ as Cosmic Mind
4.4 The Heresies – Adoptionism: Christ as Anointed Prophet
4.3 The Heresies – Docetics & Marcionites: Denying Christ's Humanity
4.2 The Heresies – Judaizers and Ebionites: Denying Christ’s Divinity
4.1 The Heresies - Introduction to the Series
The future of Way of the Fathers: Mike Aquilina and Jim Papandrea in conversation
3.13 Cities of God: Last and Lasting Lessons
3.12 Cities of God: Carthage, African Christian Genesis
3.11 Cities of God: Ravenna, Capital on the Swamp
3.10 Cities of God: Constantinople (Not Istanbul)
3.9 Cities of God: Ejmiatsin and Christian Armenia
3.8 Cities of God: Lugdunum, the French Connection
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