Patristics

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c. 100 – 750 · Africa · origin: Alexandria

The Church Fathers bring Christian faith together with Greek philosophy

Key ideas

• Faith and reason do not contradict each other
• Doctrines of the Trinity and the nature of Christ
• The world was created from nothing and began in time
• Augustine: grace, free will and the City of God

Key thinkers

• Augustine of Hippo — theologian, bishop of Hippo, 354–430

Grew out of

• Neoplatonism c. 245 – 529 · Europe

What grew out of it

• Scholasticism c. 1100 – 1700 · Europe

Meanwhile elsewhere

• Confucianism Asia
• Buddhist philosophy Asia
• Cynicism Europe
• Taoism Asia
• Peripatetic school Europe
• Pyrrhonism Europe
• Epicureanism Europe
• Stoicism Europe
• Nyaya Asia
• Madhyamaka Asia
• Yogachara Asia
• Chan and Zen Asia
• Advaita Vedanta Asia
• Kalam Middle East

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