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A bearded Justin Martyr presenting an open book to a Roman emperor. Engraving by Jacques Callot. Justin Martyr was born c. AD 90–100, [9] [10] into a Greek family, [10] [11] at Flavia Neapolis (today Nablus) near the ancient biblical city of Shechem, in Samaria. [12]
Justin the Confessor (died 269) was a Christian martyr in the Roman Empire. He is honoured as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. [1]
The First Apology was an early work of Christian apologetics addressed by Justin Martyr to the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius.In addition to arguing against the persecution of individuals solely for being Christian, Justin also provides the Emperor with a defense of the philosophy of Christianity and a detailed explanation of contemporary Christian practices and rituals.
Justin Martyr. The Dialogue with Trypho, along with the First and Second Apologies, is a second-century Christian apologetic text, usually agreed to be dated in between AD 155-160. It is seen as documenting the attempts by theologian Justin Martyr to show that Christianity is the new law for all men, and to prove from Scripture that Jesus is ...
Crescens (fl. 2nd century AD) was a Cynic philosopher who attacked the Christians, and was in turn attacked by Justin Martyr. Eusebius , writing 150 years later, accused him of causing Justin's death .
Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.
The Martyrdom of Polycarp is also the earliest of the martyr acts as a genre in the ancient Christian tradition. This martyrdom theme enters Christian literature through the early Jewish martyrs' literature found in 2 Maccabees 6–7, in the Old Testament, and through the account of the death of Stephen in Acts 7 in the New Testament. [2]
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s attempted assassination, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has clarified prior comments he made wishing that the former president was an “actual martyr ...