Relational Thinking in the Fathers and Early Councils

Abstract

Early Christian thinkers were prompted to rethink thought by revelation. The Greek metaphysical heritage was marked by an aporia, rooted in the tension between the one and the many, because episteme was recognised as relational while thought could not be so. Both the patristic and conciliar course of the first eight centuries showed how the re-signification of the Logos in a relational key made it possible to rethink thought as relational and overcome this aporia.