Krikščioniškosios Tiesos Universalumas Justino Kankinio Raštuose
The Universality of Christian Truth in the Writings of Justin Martyr

Summary/Abstract: In order to communicate Christ’s truth to intelelectuals of Antiquity, it became indispensible for Christians to prove its universality in philosophical terms. Following already an established tradition of kerygmatic preaching to Greeks, Justin Martyr attempts to demonstrate how the truth of one God incarnated, Logos-Christ, is anticipated in thought of various Greek philosophers. Justin transforms the Stoic concept of logos spermatikos into a concept of the innate cognitive capacity to know the universal Logos who revealed himself as Christ. According to his view, all humanity by virtue of the innate capacity participates in the Logos-Christ. By virtue of grace, the Logos-Christ revealed himself fully to all humankind. Thus, the universal truth can be known only by virtue of faith into the very fact of the Incarnated Logos.

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