Christianity as True Philosophy: The Theology of St. Justin Martyr | Prof. Matthew Thomas

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Professor Matthew Thomas examines the theology of St. Justin Martyr, arguing that Justin viewed Christianity as the culmination of both Greek philosophy and Jewish scripture, with Christ as the fulfillment of both.

This lecture was given on January 24th, 2024, at University of California, Berkeley.

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About the Speaker:

Matthew J. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA, and an Instructor in Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. He holds a D.Phil in New Testament and Patristics from the University of Oxford, and is the author of Paul's 'Works of the Law' in the Perspective of Second-Century Reception (Mohr Siebeck, 2018; IVP, 2020), which received the Jesus Creed "Book of the Year" award for 2018. Matthew and his wife Leeanne live in the Bay Area with their children Camille, Raphael, Michael and Agnes, who are also aspiring theologians.

Keywords: Apologetics, Dialogue With Trypho, Early Church Fathers, First Apology, Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Logos, Platonism, Saint Justin Martyr, Socrates

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1:00.8	Our lecture for today is titled Christianity as True Philosophy, the theology of St. Justin
1:07.8	Margaret. Let me just tell you a little bit about St. Justin. So when I was a master's
1:15.3	student in Regent College in Vancouver, this would be the summer of 2011, I was back here,
1:25.7	and I just started reading through the early church fathers because I'd never
1:28.1	done it before. And I came across Justin and I started reading his first apology. And as I was
1:34.2	reading, I was thinking, this might be the most interesting thing that I had ever read before.
1:39.1	And I, I think I probably, at least in a, you might say, like an implicit sense, I probably had kind of an
1:49.1	evolutionary model of theology in my head where, you know, the more that you go on, kind of the
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