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对柏拉图而言,也如对基督徒而言一样,世界有一开端。我在绪论中说过,世界是被造的这一理念是基督教神学的基本信仰。护教士和教父们在《蒂迈欧篇》中看见柏拉图的创世故事时,他们说柏拉图或是读过摩西的书,(他们认为《创世记》是摩西所写的);或者柏拉图的故事也得之神启。早期基督教的思想家非常乐见在希腊人中间有对基督教真理的见证。护教士和教父们在反击异教作家的攻击时,常引述基督教的教导与柏拉图学说的某些呼应,以说明为何须相信基督教的
For Plato, as for Christians, the world has a beginning. I said in the introduction that the idea that the world was created is the basic belief in Christian theology. When the priest and the churchfather saw the creation story of Plato in Timaeco, they said that Plato or Moses book (they think Genesis was written by Moses) or Plato The story is also revelation. Early Christian thinkers were happy to see testimony of the Christian truth among the Greeks. In counterattacking the attacks by pagan writers, the apologists and the godfathers often quoted some echo of Christian teaching and Platonic theory as to why Christianity must be believed