Justin Martyr was a second-century Christian philosopher and apologist who sought to explain the faith within the intellectual world of the Roman Empire. He identified Christ with the divine Logos and taught that seeds of the Logos could be found wherever human beings had perceived truth, including among Greek philosophers. At the same time, he presented Christ as the fullness toward which partial philosophical insight pointed.
Justin matters because he established one of the earliest durable bridges between Athens and Jerusalem. Within the Royal Art, he helps articulate a Christic reading of the Prisca Theologia: philosophy may bear fragments of truth, but the fragments find their center, measure, and fulfillment in the Logos.