In the late second or early third century, the Christian theologian Tertullian wrote the following rhetorical question in a book advising how to deal with heretics: “What indeed does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?” By this, he meant, “What does philosophy have to do with divine revelation?” or, “What does the reasoning of the stoics or platonists have to do with Christianity?” His answer was a resounding “absolutely nothing,” but it nevertheless remains a question that has occupied thinkers from Thomas Aquinas to modern critics, and has been addressed in books like The Incoherence of the Philosophers by Al-Ghazali and The Incoherence of the Incoherence by Ibn Rushd.
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