For the Christian believer the thought constructs belong to an inferior level of knowledge, any rational investigation being futile, because of the mind, which is situated within the heart, discovers the truth directly and easily, and comes in communion with God. Then, how come the great Christian theologians were interested in the profane philosophy, which deals with rationalization, defining, implementing ideas in discourse, troubling of the mind, and therefore the act of thinking? The fact th…
Read moreFor the Christian believer the thought constructs belong to an inferior level of knowledge, any rational investigation being futile, because of the mind, which is situated within the heart, discovers the truth directly and easily, and comes in communion with God. Then, how come the great Christian theologians were interested in the profane philosophy, which deals with rationalization, defining, implementing ideas in discourse, troubling of the mind, and therefore the act of thinking? The fact that Christians treasure classic philosophy cannot be doubted, and a sign of this appreciation are the pictorial representations of some heathen Greek philosophers on the walls of Orthodox churches. My text intends to develop and clarify the peremptory connection that exists between the classic philosophy and the Christian theology. The pretext and at the same time the starting point of this step is represented by the justification of the presence of heathen philosophers that are painted on the walls of Orthodox churches, such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Thucydides, Solon, Hippocrates, to name just a few. They are painted in the house of a God in which they did not believe, as they lived some hundred years before the birth of Jesus.