
Episode 90: Ante-Nicene Catholicism
Literature and History
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Justin Martyr's Ideology
According to Eusebius' account, Justin ran afoul of a prominent cynic philosopher. The Greek word Logos to the first and second centuries not only meant word, in Stoic philosophy, Logos means something like reason or expostulation. In the longer phrase, Logos Spermatikos in Stoicism had long described the gradual unfolding of the cosmos as animated by seeds of divine reason.
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