How widely accepted is platonism in Christianity?

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My limited understanding is that the early church fathers were as aware of platonic philosophy as Plato was of Jewish philosophy.

"The Fathers of the early Church sought to explain the striking resemblance between the doctrines of Plato and those of Christianity, principally by the acquaintance, which, as they supposed, that philosopher had with learned Jews and with the Jewish Scriptures during his sojourn in Egypt, but partly, also, by the universal light of a divine revelation through the "Logos," which, in and through human reason, "lighteth every man that cometh into the world," and which illumined especially such sincere and humble seekers after truth as Socrates and Plato before the incarnation of the Eternal Word in the person of Jesus Christ."

quoted from an article at the Christian Classical Ethereal Library.

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