Information on the thesis

In the thesis the problem of the relationship between faith and reason proved
to  be  more  developed  by  the  first  apologists  than  their  predecessors,  the  apostles
men. However, this vision is not worthy of the name of concept. In the Alexandrian
school  of  the  Christian  theology  we  first  meet  the  conceptualization  of  the
relationship between faith and reason. It is developed by Clement of Alexandria. For
him, faith is the beginning of knowledge of God, it is a kind of religious intuition,
knowledge  in  advance  of  God  that  exists  in  a  human  soul.  It  is,  after  Clement, a
mental act. On the other hand, mental process of reflection on the truths of faith, the
improvement in the faith is called knowledge, Christian gnosis. This concept of the
relationship between faith and reason is called rationalistic due to the fact that the
concept of faith is identified in the writings of Clement as a mental act.
Among  the  Cappadocian  Fathers  the  most  innovative  concept  of  the
relationship  between  faith  and  reason  was  that  of  Gregory  of  Nyssa.  While  after
Clement of Alexandria and Origen faith primarily took place only at the beginning
of the knowledge of God, and then it was knowledge that set in; and this concept is
called rationalistic; then in the first Cappadocians (Basil the Great and Gregory the
Theologian) faith and reason cooperate at all the levels of the knowledge of God, in
the works of Gregory of Nyssa a continuation of the tradition of Cappadocians is
seen, but first faith after him is clearly associated with means of communion with
God, which is the last stage of the knowledge of God and where there is no place of
reason.  This  vision  of  the  problem  “Athens  and  Jerusalem”  we  called  mystical
conception of the relationship between faith and reason.
Pseudo-Dionysius,  Maximus  the  Confessor  and  Gregory  Palamas  in  the
solving of the problem of the relationship between faith and reason are in the same
vein as their predecessor Gregory of Nyssa recognizing faith as the means of union
with God.
Therefore as a result of the critical analysis of the problem it is proposed to
classify the periods of the formulation and solution of the relationship between faith
and reason in eastern patristics as nonconseptual, rationalistic and mystic.
Keywords:  faith,  reason,  patristics,  knowledge,  God,  theology,  apologetics,
philosophy, revelation, Christianity.