RELIGST 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Shipbuilding, Justin Martyr, Ancient Greek Philosophy
28 Sep 2016
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Divine and human: christology principle written before 4th c. Acknowledged greek philosophers would find the idea of god becoming a man and being crucified nonsensical, but argues that christianity was more sophisticated than the best of greek philosophy. Describes christ as a second god: for next to god, we worship and love the word who is from the ingenerate and ineffable father: does not think christ has same divinity. One of the great thinks of the early church. Was the first to argue fro the eternal generation of the son from the father (on first principles iv. First attempt to give systematic account of christian faith. Implies that there is something outside of the father that he had not created a. i. The nicene creed of 325 - christ fully divine: the most important statement about christ in the history of christianity, council, met at nicaea, made up of 318 bishops a. i. a. ii.
