ABSTRACT
We have touched already on the question of the use theologians felt it proper to make of the methods developed by classical philosophers. There were fundamental problems here to do with the ways in which human understanding comes by what it knows, and conveys it to others. Christians recognised two gifts which did not come into the philosophers’ reckoning: revelation in Holy Scripture; and the gift of faith which is inseparable from trust on the part of the believer. ‘I believe’ is not identical with ‘I know.’ But there was also a substantial common heritage of epistemology and methodology, with which both philosophy and theology had to deal.
