God ethics came first too.
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.”
“Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor’s wife.”
Who needs aristotle? We’ve got GOD!
God gave us Aristotle.
I think a solid foundation in philosophy and learning only validates the belief in God. The search for Truth is vital to belief and that search for Truth and knowledge has always been the purpose of life on earth and led to the ideas of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.
People should pursue intellectual development as well as spiritual and physical development. There has to be a balance in life and the intellectual is at least as important as the others. Knowledge is extremely important, particularly for religions.
Postmoderns are for “feelings” and “urges” as being all equally “good”—it is only intellectual ideas in the marketplace that can prove this powerful notion, false. Intellectual ideas start with the Hellenic ideas and should never be discarded—they are methods of getting to the Truth, which God always loves. Logic and reason and science started in Truth with Aristotle which was perfected only over hundreds of years of more contemplation. We wouldn’t have the Bible with out intellectual thought.