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The Philosophy of God Secondly, their community was defined in its beginning in time not just by the Incarnation, but later - in the first centuries of their age - by the fact that, using Saint Paul's definitions, they distinguished in practise as well as in theory between what they called 'the Philosophy of the World' and the 'Philosophy of God.' In this they found a need to redefine philosophy to eliminate certain elements that had come down to them from the Greek philosophy of the previous age - much of which, of course, they retained and found to be of great value as helping them to understand the realities of their Christian thought. As an example, we may begin to understand that although they questioned some of Plato's thought, among other distinctions, they valued that made by Plato between the 'sensible realm' (aistheton genos) and the 'intelligible or noetic realm' (noeton genos). "The first is in constant process of change, the second unchanging. The one consists of phenomena, appearances, destructible things; the other of truly real (ontos onta), indestructible things." (2) They accepted subjective observations as valid, but with certain provisos to prevent the introduction of errors into these observations. For example:
Their philosophy - of course - took much from Biblical sources, seeing parallels between these and the classical contents they had retained: At the same time it would not be right to say that they retained only those classical ideas which agreed with the ideas of the Gospel. They set a more empirical standard, although few modern scientists would recognise it as such. |
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