The Impact of Christianity

The Impact of Christianity

May 10, 2007

Christianity has been around for over 2000 years. Christianity came into philosophy when Augustine argued that you can not get something from nothing. He had a hard time believing that God created the Earth out of the air. There are many different theories about whether God really exists, or not.

According to Hypatia and her father, they believed the world must have been created by God. They believed this because the most perfect shape is the circle and the Earth is shaped in the most perfect form, a circle. Hypatia introduced mathematics and astrology into the equation of philosophy and Christianity.

More towards the years after the turn of the century 1000 to 1200, Muslims came into the picture stronger than ever. They were making their opinion heard through spreading literacy and increasing intellectual vigor. St. Thomas Aquinas had the longest lasting effects on his followers. His philosophy was turn more towards the Catholic belief. He preached that there can be only one truth, part of which I accessible to human reason and the other part has to be pure faith.

The key philosophers during this era are Plotinus, who believes that realty stems from the One. St. Augustine was one who rejected skepticism and provided Platonic philosophical justification for the Christian belief in a nonmaterial God. Pyrrho argued that every belief has disbeliefs