[goldstategop]

Augustine was a Platonist while Aquinas was an Aristotelian. The influence of the Greek philosophers is clear to any one who reads the work of the two greatest Christian thinkers in Western Civilization.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[redgolum]

Augustine was a Platonist while Aquinas was an Aristotelian.

When I first dived into Augustine, that struck me as a surprise! BTW, Augustine took much from Plato's philosophy, but he was not a Platonist. There where a group of heretics at that time called Platonist who accepted Plato's theology in whole, which Augustine himself wrote against.