There may be something to expanding St. Augustine's 'Plunder of the Egyptians' to such philosophy, but I'm concerned with whether it will taint our theology (more than it already may have)
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Then again, there were risks with Christians appropriating Greek philosophy: Gnosticism seems to have been emboldened by some Platonism (re. the Demiurge). Yet the Chuch Fathers appropriated NeoPlatonism anyways
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There were also risks with appropriating Aristotelianism: most Aristotelians posited an eternal world, or that God doesn't know particulars. Yet Sts. Bonaventure and (moreso) Thomas Aquinas appropriated Aristotelianism anyways.
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As long as we trust in God and remain careful with our ideas, we can follow the examples of past Christian thinkers and make use of pagan ideas.
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Exactly, wow that's actually a good comparison, and only by rigorous intellectual analysis and more intuitive meditation on such things did the church fathers come to terms with these things and exercised prudence in adopting external ideas, we need this now, not just reeeing.
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