在对早期基督教思想的研究中，“哲学”通常是“柏拉图主义”的同义词，最多是“柏拉图主义和斯多葛主义”的同义词。然而，从公元六世纪到意大利文艺复兴时期，亚里士多德是基督教、穆斯林和犹太哲学中占主导地位的希腊人。
《亚里士多德与早期基督教思想》是第一本概述亚里士多德思想从2世纪到6世纪在基督教世界缓慢发展的英文书。它专注于伟大的神学主题——创造、灵魂、三位一体和基督论——充分利用了亚里士多德之后的游历传统的现代学术，解释了新柏拉图主义作为亚里士多德逻辑调停者的意义。在强调基督教思想家对希腊学派不认同的圣经预设的忠诚的同时，它还描述了他们通过持续使用亚里士多德原则来克服异教徒对圣经教义的反对的尝试，并遵循了他们对这些原则的应用，这些原则不属于亚里士多德本人的权限。
这本书提供了一个有价值的研究，不仅对基督教神学的学生在其形成的岁月，也为任何人寻求介绍亚里士多德的思想及其在古代晚期的发展。
Aristotle and Early Christian Thought
In studies of early Christian thought, ‘philosophy’ is often a synonym for ‘Platonism’, or at most for ‘Platonism and Stoicism’. Nevertheless, it was Aristotle who, from the sixth century AD to the Italian Renaissance, was the dominant Greek voice in Christian, Muslim and Jewish philosophy.
Aristotle and Early Christian Thought is the first book in English to give a synoptic account of the slow appropriation of Aristotelian thought in the Christian world from the second to the sixth century. Concentrating on the great theological topics – creation, the soul, the Trinity, and Christology – it makes full use of modern scholarship on the Peripatetic tradition after Aristotle, explaining the significance of Neoplatonism as a mediator of Aristotelian logic. While stressing the fidelity of Christian thinkers to biblical presuppositions which were not shared by the Greek schools, it also describes their attempts to overcome the pagan objections to biblical teachings by a consistent use of Aristotelian principles, and it follows their application of these principles to matters which lay outside the purview of Aristotle himself.
This volume offers a valuable study not only for students of Christian theology in its formative years, but also for anyone seeking an introduction to the thought of Aristotle and its developments in Late Antiquity.
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