Ethics have long been a neglected matter in scholarship an early Christian apologetics. However a closer look at the composition of the texts of Justin Martyr teaches us how important the references in Christian ethics actually are in the run of his argument. The external reason for that lays in the fact that Justin wants to prove the legal proceedings against the Christians in the Roman Empire to be unjust and absurd. The inner reason is that he interprets Christianity as "true philosophy": in view of the understanding of "philosophy" in his pagan environment. This brings about fundamental ethical implications. Both his apologies and the dialogue with Trypho show how Justin employs ethical Convictions as a criteria for Christian identity and as a trait of difference between Christianity and Paganism on the one band, and between Christianity and Judaism and the other.

Enthalten in:
Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik; 2006/1 Kommentare, Studien, Berichte, Dokumentationen, Diskussionen, Rezensionen, Bibliographie (2006)

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Serie / Reihe: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik

Personen: Ulrich, Jörg

Schlagwörter: Identität Christentum Ethik Martyr, Justin