ABSTRACT
After a brief account of Aristotle’s life and the reception of his teaching in pagan circles, this chapter reviews his influence on Tertullian, Clement and Origen in the second century, the adoption of the energeia-dunamis distinction in Trinitarian debates, the application of the Categories to both Trinitarian and Christological doctrine, and the relation between theology and philosophy in two sixth-century Christian commentators on Aristotle, Philoponus and Boethius.
