JUSTINO KANKINIO FILOSOFINĖ PRISIKĖLIMO SAMPRATA
The Philosophical Concept of the Resurrection of Justin the Martyr

Summary/Abstract: Since the times of the apostles, the Christian truth of the resurrection has been the most controversial truth for Greek philosophers to admit as a rational one. The purpose of this article is to understand how one of the first early Christian thinkers of the second century, Justin the Martyr, conveyed the idea of resurrection to the Greeks, and expressed it in terms of Greek philosophy. As an important premise of this study, we have attempted to enlarge the field of analysis by the inclusion of his Christian attitudes on the matter. As a result, we see the biblical concept of resurrection (anastasis) expressed in terms of the stoic doctrine of conflagration (ekpiurosis) in Justin's argument. The analysis has also shown that Justin elaborately modelled the philosophical notion of final conflagration on the concept of resurrection of the "revealed philosophy", ie Christian faith.

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