The supercessionist argument in Justin the Philosopher: the lógos and the history of Christianity
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Although much has been written about the notion of logos in Justin, so far it has not been studied in relation to his conception of history. Here I propose to show that relationship by discovering the premises of the “supercessionist argument”. Through it, in fact, it is possible to recover all pre-Christian truths, especially those of Jewish origin, and combine them in an unbroken history from the origin of the world to the first parousía. This paper is, thus, divided into three parts. In the first one, I will expose the notion of logos, in the second will examine the reinterpretation of relations between Judaism and Christianity in the work of the martyr, in the third part will show the supercessionist argument explaining how the notion of logos operates in it.
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