3.22 The Imperial Church Incorporate II: The Martyr

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Justin Martyr is the second of the great Christian figures of the second century. He is one of the earliest for whom we have a substantial biography from the man himself. He wrote at length and often, creating the largest body of Christian literature to his time. Later Christians quoted from him endlessly, and lauded him as a writer, apologist, philosopher, and intellectual. But he introduced a pronounced anti-Jewish animus into Christianity. He also creates the concept of “heresy”, which would bedevil Christianity for centuries. I also discuss two of Justin’s successors: Melito and Tatian.

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0:00.0	Giday, I'm Gary Stevens.
0:09.9	And welcome to the third season of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:15.2	In this final season, I explore how the Jews and the Christians constructed new religions when they
0:23.5	were sent spinning into the void after the destruction of the temple. All of the history,
0:30.5	about all of the books beyond the Bible.
0:45.7	Episode 3.22. The Imperial Church Incorporate, part two, the martyr.
0:53.5	In the last episode, I investigated Marcian of Sinapace, the man who shook the Imperial Church and corporate to its foundations.
0:56.7	He went on to create his own Christian franchise.
1:00.7	Just as a disappointed Marcian was catching a ship out of Rome back to his homeland in Asia
1:07.0	Minor, a middle-aged man by the name of Justin landed in the Eternal City.
1:13.4	That was around the year 150. Rome was increasingly recognised as not just the home of Christianity's
1:20.3	largest congregation, but also its corporate capital. Justin was a little younger than
1:27.1	Marcian. We know him as Justin Marta. Oh, now there's a
1:32.6	spoiler. Justin was born in the Roman colony of Flavia Neapolis. Flavia Neapolis was founded near
1:41.0	Shechem in Samaria, by the Roman General of Hispasia after the Great Revolt.
1:47.5	You'll recall that this region was the home of the Samaritans, uncomfortably squeezed between
1:53.4	Jewish Judea to the south and Jewish Galilee to the north.
1:58.7	You might also want to catch up on the storied history of Shechem,
2:03.2	beginning with My Episode 1.10, Genesis Part 3, Abraham is called.
2:10.6	Justin calls himself a Samaritan, but also says that his family were pagans in good standing.
2:18.0	It's difficult to reconcile those two.
2:21.0	Justin received an excellent Greek philosophical education.
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