St. Justin Martyr on Creation

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Dr. Ben Akers sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Klein to discuss St. Justin Martyr—an early Church martyr who lived from about AD 100 to 165 and wrote several significant Christian apologetic works. St. Justin was a convert to the Catholic faith, philosopher, and is famous for his idea of the "seeds of the Word" found throughout all of God's creation. St. Justin explains that all things are created by God and that there are seeds of God's truth found in all things. This allows Justin to confidently seek the truth present in other philosophies and even the pagan myths and draw out what is true and good and relate it to the Word—Jesus Christ. Watch Catholic Saints on FORMED. Sign Up for FORMED. Support this podcast and the Augustine Institute on the Mission Circle.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints. This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,
0:09.1	an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:22.6	Hello, welcome to Form Now.
0:25.3	This is a conversation we're having about Catholic Saints.
0:31.8	If you're listening on the podcast version of this, you can also watch the video version of this conversation on form.org.
0:33.1	My name is Dr. Ben Acres.
0:35.5	I'm the chief content officer here at the Augustine Institute.
0:37.6	And joining me today is Dr. Elizabeth Klein, professor of theology at our graduate school here. Thanks for joining me, Liz.
0:41.0	Thanks for having me.
0:41.8	So today we're going to be talking about what's been very popular with our viewers and also
0:46.3	listeners now on the podcast is going through saint stories. We've been pattering ourselves
0:51.3	on the liturgical year. And on June 1st, we celebrate a great saint named St. Justin Martyr.
0:58.9	Yeah, I love that I get invited to talk about all my favorite early Christian saints. So Justin Martyr is an incredibly important early Christian saint. He's an incredibly important witness to many things in the early church, to sort of earliest
1:12.0	citations of the Gospels and reflections on Christ, to one of the earliest witnesses to the
1:16.9	Christian liturgy.
1:18.2	He also saw Christianity as the highest form of philosophy and is a martyr.
1:22.3	So there's so many things to talk about when it comes to Justin.
1:24.9	So a martyr is not his last name?
1:27.3	No. Is it interesting, though, it makes it into his name. So a martyr is not his last name? No.
1:28.7	It's interesting, though, it makes it into his name.
1:30.7	Like, that's how prominent he was as a, I think it was Tortolian, the early church
1:35.4	ecclesiastical writer called him the philosopher martyr.
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