The first stage of the medieval Christian philosophy is apologetic (II-III cc.).

Apologetic period, coming after the apostles, gives us a number of well-known Christian writers and thinkers (Justin the

Tertulli

Justin first gave Christianity the concept of Greek philosophy and laid the foundation theological interpretation of history.

In the emerging theology

Tertullian (2-3 c.) first expressed the concept of the Trinity. “I believe, because it is absurd” (Credo

quia absurdum

Patristics.

At the heart of this theology was Alexandrian School (Clement of Alexandria, Origen etc).

Origenes Adamantius

(about 185-254). Founder of

biblical philology. Coined the term “God-man”. God is Providence in action.

Apocatastasis meaning reconstitution to the primordial condition (universal salvation-спасение).

Aurelius Augustinus - St. Austin (354-430). The ancestor of the Christian philosophy of history. Augustine describes human history in his book “The City of God”.

God created matter and endowed (наделить) it with different shapes. Evil is the deficiency

Scholasticism is a systematic medieval philosophy, centered around universities and is a synthesis of Catholic theology and

logic.

Scholasticism is characterized by two trends: the realists and nominalists.

According to realism only general concepts, or universals, have true reality (Guillaume de Champeaux).