قراءة في جدلية الفلسفة و الدين عند المسيحيين في العصور الوسطى

Abstract EN

The first problem that arises when one undertakes an intellectual history of the Middle Ages is obviously to delimit the latter, where does it begin, where does it stop, where does it develop? Questions of temporal boundaries, but also of geographical spaces, whose constituency is for Medieval a puzzle infinitely renewed.

Thus tracing medieval culture to the spread of the Christian religion.

In this respect, the first words of the introduction of Gilson were very significant: The Christian religion made contact with philosophy in the second century of our era, as soon as there were converts of Greek culture.

This freed up the possibility of dealing with the patristic as the latter took a stand with regard to philosophy, if only to justify the new religion against him.

The Apologist Fathers produce "partial statements of the Christian faith and some attempts to justify it in the face of Greek philosophy.

Philosophy had to be addressed so that justification could take place.