Tag: Justin Martyr

  • Formal Sufficiency of Scripture: Early Christian Writers (Guest Series)

    Formal Sufficiency of ScriptureStated and Examined from Scripture and the Fathers, with scholarly confirmation regarding the Fathers’ views. In an introduction section (link), we discussed the nature of formal sufficiency that we, the Reformed, affirm. In the next section (link), we saw Scripture’s own testimony to its own sufficiency. If we were simply establishing the…

  • Justin Martyr's Source of Apostolic Information – the Memoirs of the Apostles

    Justin Martyr’s biography is necessarily a bit uncertain. Nevertheless, according to our best guesses, Justin Martyr was born around the year of our Lord 100, only a few years after the last of the apostles, the Apostle John, died. Thus, one might imagine that Justin Martyr’s knowledge of the Apostles’ teachings would come primarily from…