Socrates and Other Saints: Early Christian Understandings of Reason and Philosophy

Many contemporary writers misunderstand early Christian views on philosophy because they identify the critical stances of the ante-Nicene fathers toward specific pagan philosophical schools with a general negative stance toward reason itself. Dariusz Karłowicz's Socrates and Other Saints demonstrates why this identification is false.

The question of the extent of humanity's natural knowledge cannot be reduced to the question of faith's relationship to the historical manifestations of philoso...