Why did the mid-evil Christians love Plato and Aristotle so much?

Who else had such expansive philosophical systems?

Epicurean philosophy is at odds with Christian ethics

Stoicism is gay, therefore against Christian ethical

Cynicism was too edgy and intellectually incomplete

Scepticism wasn't adopted for obvious reasons

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>>1506453
>mid-evil

>>1506467
>Stoicism is gay
Explain

>>1506453
I will answer this tersely. It was merely because European theology recognized Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle as the greatest philosophers that ever lived. If you read Augustine, he goes into explicit detail describing the various schools of Greek thought and why Aristotle's should be valued above all others. They weren't wrong, if you're considering thinking that.

Christianity isn't Islam. We're allowed to pick out the good things from pagan cultures and improve on them instead of destroying the world to wallow in rags in the dust.

>>1506453
Why did the catholic church like Plato when platonic academy nonsense was the source of heretical gnosticism?

>>1506453
It was one of the only pre-Christian intellectual systems that wasn't at odds with the nature of Christianity and the church.

>>1506503
A lot of Neo-Platonists (including pagans) disliked the Gnostics.

Plotinus, the predominant Neoplatonist, accused the Gnostics of misinterpretating Plato's Timeaus.

>>1506519
>>1506503

Plotinus and the Neoplatonists viewed Gnosticism as a form of heresy or sectarianism to the Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy of the Mediterranean and Middle East. He accused them of using senseless jargon and being overly dramatic and insolent in their distortion of Plato's ontology." Plotinus attacks his opponents as untraditional, irrational and immoral and arrogant. He also attacks them as elitist and blasphemous to Plato for the Gnostics despising the material world and its maker