Platonism is incompatible with Christianity mainly because its standpoint is ahistorical and static.
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...our historical cultic institutions are, at least in some part, "pleasing" to Them: the Gods engage with our institutions.
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ah okay. Thank you!
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So, the Gods are not static; are they "ahistorical"? No, because as we see from the Cratylus (400d-e)...
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This is treated as uncontroversial by Plato because the Gods are real being Themselves; note "for the sake of Zeus" (248e).
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Plato clearly states at Sophist 248e-249a that real being is *alive*.
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If what you are asking, is whether I agree with the characterization of the Platonic standpoint as static, no.
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Well, I'm sure he's deliberately arguing against, and hence not denying, the Church's historical appropriation of Platonism.
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