ABSTRACT
§ 1 . The conflict between Christianity and Paganism brought to light many difficulties in the Christian theory of the soul, and the progress made during the first century is slight. The works of the apologists contain a few points that seem to indicate the nature of the development as it advanced. In Justin Martyr the Old Testament doctrine and Philo’s works form the main basis; Plato and Moses are somewhat uncritically identified and the prominence given to Plato is more in name than in fact. For this writer immortality is not the property of the soul, neither is the soul a particle of the divine mind; immortality is attained from God as a special gift. Justin wrote a treatise on the soul, but the work is lost.
