Jess Chapman Post 3

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 Prompt #3 Jess chapman Jess Chapman Mrs. Wilhelmus AP English 7/30/13 Medieval Thinkers Prompt #3 The Middle Ages was a time of experiencing what it true in Christianity and what has proof behind it and what does not. The leaders of this time experiment with Christianity and beliefs figuring out what is real and what is unreal. St. Augustine studied Christianity more and more during the Middle Ages. He was the one who made people start thinking about their religios beliefs, because St. Augustine had facts about Christianity, proving the existence of God was real and Christianity was a good religion to all people. As St. Augustine went further in depth to learn about Christianity he had more people to follow his beliefs and they will believe in Christianity, as well. St. Augustine was a great philosopher, who got other people in the Middle Ages to think harder about things in the world, like Christianity and the existence of God. St. Augustine did christianize Plato's theory. Therefore, St. Augustine basically made Plato's theory to be reconized not as a threat to christianity, but kind of a part of chrinstianity instead. The result of St. Augustine christianizing Plato was that he showed people from the Middle Ages and further in life that you can be a philosopher and a Christian to a certain existent. He said that if you truly believe in God then you can feel when the limit of your philosophy stops, you just have to trust God and let him take over. Along with St. Augustine, a little later in the Middle Ages came along another great philosopher, St. Aquinas. St. Thomas Aquinas was very faithful in what he believed in. He christianized Aristotle, making Aristotle's theory be recognized not threating christianity anymore, just making it easier to believe in christianity. Aquinas helped the people of the Middle Ages realize what they believed in and what was wrong a write. The result of St. Thomas Aquinas Christianizing Aristotle's theory was that he got his people to follow what he believed and they believed you can be a Christian and believe in Aristotle's theory too. If it was not for St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas from the Middle Ages, then the beliefs we had today would not be the same, because philosophies and Christianity would be separated. People would think that you have to choose to be a philosopher or a Christian. Also, people would not know that to be a philosopher and a Christian you have to really trust God and know the limit of you philosophy. St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas were two very important and great philosophers, who influenced the world's beliefs from the Middle Ages to the current day today.