I am currently researching my confirmation saint. I would like to hear who you all chose.
I was confirmed in 8th grade- did not take it seriously. I believed in God/Jesus but they were not a priority in my life. for that reason I just took my existin first name. Some vague saint who was a king.Furlock Bones said:
I am currently researching my confirmation saint. I would like to hear who you all chose.
Read- lives of the Saints- Fr. James Martin. He starts putting it in proper perspective how the saints are so beneficial. He suggests we pick saints- that are like you- have the same strengths or faults. Or saints who are not like you.Furlock Bones said:
I am currently researching my confirmation saint. I would like to hear who you all chose.
Still it was a little bit funy.Furlock Bones said:
there's no need for you to post on this thread.
FIFYjkag89 said:Still he is a little bit puny.Furlock Bones said:
there's no need for you to post on this thread.
a Seinfeld fan, huh?747Ag said:
John Bosco
Confirmed in 8th grade. Would choose him again.
Not really. I do enjoy the show from time to time, but that episode (from a little Googling) aired after I graduated from high school.Furlock Bones said:a Seinfeld fan, huh?747Ag said:
John Bosco
Confirmed in 8th grade. Would choose him again.
Furlock Bones said:
i was just giving you a hard time. i'm a bit of Seinfeld fanatic.
and yet here i am.Furlock Bones said:
there's no need for you to post on this thread.
Or even funny. Can't believe I missed that typo.Thriller said:FIFYjkag89 said:Still he is a little bit puny.Furlock Bones said:
there's no need for you to post on this thread.
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St. Justin Martyr: The Spermatikos Logos and the Natural Law
ST. JUSTIN MARTYR'S CONCEPT OF THE NATURAL LAW should be understood within his broader understanding of man. Like many Christians influenced by neo-Platonism, St. Justin Martyr viewed the nature of man to be composed of three distinct parts: body (, soma), soul (, psyche), and spirit (, pneuma). His view of the natural moral law is therefore colored by this tripartite notion of man. In speaking about the pneumatic life, the vital spirit, in man St. Justin Martyr uses the term (zotikon pneuma) (in Latin, spritus vitalis). St. Justin also appears to understand this as the divine principle in man, the distinguishing feature of his nature, his unique dignity. He views this as a participation in the very life of the Logos, and so he denominates it the "seed of the word" or reason in man, the (spermaticos logos; in Latin, ratio seminalis). Goodenough, 214. Man was to govern his soul and body by virtue of this , this , "which never became an integral part of the soul, but which imparted life and true reason to it." Goodenough, 212. This or constituted a divine element in man which "imparted reason as well as life to the soul." Goodenough, 212.
This divine principle in man had an intimate relation with the Divine Logos, the Word of God. "In every man," St. Justin Martyr believed, "there is a divine particle, his reason, which at least before Christ's coming was man's best guide in life." Goodenough, 214 (citing Ap. II 10.8) It is man's burden to live in accordance with reason, (meta logou), and not against or without reason, (aneu logou). It was thus living in accord with right reason, which was participation in divine reason, that was man's fundamental law.
Neo-Byzantine Styled Icon of St. Justin Martyr
According to St. Justin Martyr, the use of reason by men, even in men without express faith in Christ, is already Christ the Logos at work. "We have been taught," St. Justin declared, "that Christ is the First-born of God, and we have declared . . . that he is the Word of whom every race of men were partaken, and those who lived reasonable are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists." Apol. I, 46.1-4. "All right principles that philosophers and lawgivers have discovered and expressed they owe to whatever of the Word they have found and contemplated in part. The reason why they have contradicted each other is that they have not known the entire Word, which is Christ." Apol. II, 10.1-3. "The seeds of truth" St. Justin states, "are the formative principle of right knowledge and right living." Apol. I, 44. And all men have these "seeds of truth," or "seeds of reason." As part of St. Justin Martyr's view of natural man and natural morality, we confront the fascinating Justinian concept of the logos spermatikos, .
i've purposely looked into Saints that are venerated by both the East and West.k2aggie07 said:
Orthodox beliefs from a saint. Man's natural state is good, sin is not natural to our being.