Abstract:
Theology and philosophy are arguably the two greatest fields of divine and human knowledge that precede and give birth to other disciplines, including natural and social sciences. However, the relationship between these two subjects has always been controversial. Scholars, who perceive theology and philosophy as two separate antagonistic disciplines, deny outright the role of the latter in the former. As a darkness, they contend that philosophy has no light to shed on the Christian faith.
Description:
Our topic of discussion is one that has generated a lot of debate throughout the history of Christianity. Some of the famous statements concerning the relationship between theology and philosophy came from St. Paul, who said:
See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah) (Colossians 2:8 AMP).
