Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... ii. The Ethics Of The Greek Church. 30. The Ethics of the Apologists of the Second Century. The Apologists of the second century likewise accentuate the novelty and sublimity of Christianity; and consequently they also speak in a similar way of the Christian morality. They thus represent it in contrast to the extra-Christian and preChristian morality, both Jewish and heathen; while, on the other hand, they lay stress upon its originality, and its connection with the truth of heathenism and Judaism. They express this in the notions of the Logos (Reason) and of the new Law; and they make prominent in Christianity the two sides of knowledge and morality, which have both their source in the grace of regeneration in baptism, but which at the same time require the free-will of man, whose conduct, springing from the motives of fear and hope, has to expect a corresponding recompense from God. Through such media did the Greek Christian seek to connect his new consciousness, both for himself and others, with his other world of Greek thought. 1. Justin Martyr (f c. 165) 1 in prosecuting his apologetic work is led to speak of the sublimity of the Christian morality in contrast to the heathen morality. In this behoof he refers to the moral alteration which had taken place through faith 1 Otto, Corpus apologetarum christianorum seculi secundi, Jen. 1876 sqq. Semisch, Justin d. M., 2 Bde. Bresl. 1840. M. v. Engelhardt, Das Christenthum Justin's, Erlangen 1878. Hilgenfeld, Ztsehr. fur wissensch. Theologie, 1879. Stahlin, Justin d. M. u. sein neuester Beurtheiler, Lpz. 1876. (The two last against Engelhardt.) Behm, Bemerkungen zum Christenth. Justin's d. M., Ztsehr. fur kirchl. Wissensch. 1882, pp. 478-627. Dieckhoff, Justin, Augustin, Bernhard u...."
