RELATIONSHIP BETWEN FAITH AND

REASON ACORDING TO THE

FATHERS OF THE CHURCH

Dialogue between fathers of

IRENAUS AND JUSTIN the Church and philosophers
TERTULLIAN ORIGEN
CAPPADOCIAN FATHERS,
- To open the way to announcement
Show He affirms loud and clear DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE
- To understand to Jesus Christ AND S. AGUSTINE.
In Christianism I God - He laborates a
A cultural vision that sought to
subordinate the truth of have found the only form of Christian
theology. They participate in
Revelation to the philosophers safe and profitable
philosophy. the work of
interpretations.
- Theology as a Christianization of
rational reflection Platonic and
on God. Neoplatonic thought.

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

- He called the Gospel as the true philosophy.

S. AGUSTINE
He makes the first great synthesis of the
philosophical and theological thought in
which the currents of Greek and Latin
thought converged.
Synthesis is the highest form of
philosophical and theological
speculation
- He interpreted philosophy in analogy with
the Mosaic Law. S. ANSELM
- as a propaedeutic instruction to the
Christian faith.
The intellect must go in search of
- As a preparation for the Gospel. what it loves: the more I love, the
more I want to know.

Christian thinkers, from the beginning, faced the problem of the relationship between faith
and philosophy, considering it globally in its positive aspects and in its limits.

The reason as an exit to myths

ORIENT AND
OCCIDENT
They open themselves to transcendence in the best
FATHERS
way
They corporate to the reason the richness of the revelation

Encounter between the creature and the Creator