The rise of Christianity in Philosophy seems to have begun with St. Augustine when he began to incorporate Plato and Plotinus themes of Good and the One with the Christian faith. According to the reading it is also thought that without Augustine using philosophy to justify Christian beliefs in an immaterial God then Christianity would have not lasted as long as it has or become so much a part of philosophy. Christianity seemed to take a hold after the fall of the Roman Empire and after the dark ages and spread throughout Europe which in turn caused more philosophical reflection and other philosophers to devise their own theories. There have been about three key philosophers who have used themes and theories from previous philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and others to incorporate and justify their own theories.
Key contributors to Christianities impact on philosophy are Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and possibly Hypatia. Augustine was the first to bring Christianity and the philosophical themes of Plato and Plotinus together. Hypatia taught on the themes of Plato and Plotinus as well as combining it with her theories on Astronomy. St. Thomas Aquinas was a philosopher, whose philosophy was made, by Pope Leo XIII in 1879, to be the official Catholic philosophy. He used Aristotle’s theories in his philosophies and today his philosophies are still being taught in Catholic Schools and the correct philosophy.
Principle Christianized philosophical issues are the proving the existence of God, the Creation theory, and understanding the relationship between reason and faith, and the problem of universals. The problem of universals applies to the concept of the father, Son, and Holy Spirit being all one and the same under the one word “God”.
The rise of Christianity in Philosophy seems to have begun with St. Augustine when he began to incorporate Plato and Plotinus themes of Good and the One wi
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