Are you sure that the early fathers did not use philosophy? It certainly seems to me they did, but that it is subject to scripture, as is proper. Certainly Augustine uses philosophy. I am not sure the dividing line was that sharp.
They did use it - though it was controversial at times - but I don't know if you find many of them making extensive purely philosophical arguments the way Boethius does in the Consolation, for instance.
Poor Saint Boethius, he's buried in the same church as Saint Augustine, that kind of overshadows him
Thought it said Saint Bocephus!
I had been trying to figure out if Boethius was a saint or not since I first heard of the Consolation of Philosophy about a year back.
He's technically locally venerated in the diocese of Pavia, not by the universal Church.
Actually, I was wrong - his sanctity was recognized by Rome in 1883.
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Are you sure that the early fathers did not use philosophy? It certainly seems to me they did, but that it is subject to scripture, as is proper. Certainly Augustine uses philosophy. I am not sure the dividing line was that sharp.
They did use it - though it was controversial at times - but I don't know if you find many of them making extensive purely philosophical arguments the way Boethius does in the Consolation, for instance.
@ That may be true.