Theologians

I was reading last night some works by great early theologians. It was interesting because the two were in stark contrast to one another. One, Justin Martyr, describes this synthesis between philosophy and theology. His argument is that philosophers were simply trying to describe the "Logos", the "word" as best as they could with their limited knowledge and that the truth found within their philosophies was still truth and was even "Christian" truth because it described the "Logos". He argues that the contradictions and so forth in their philosophy was only there because they had an imperfect perception of the Logos, but now that Christ has come, the Logos incarnate, we have a full picture of what it should really look like. All confusion is lifted.
Tertullian on the other hand had quite a different perspective, he said that the pagan philosophers and Christian theology had nothing to do with one another, he eludes to the the ideas found in 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 of there needing to be a complete separation between the two ideologies.
Augustine comes to the rescue of both and says that there is some truth that can be gleaned from the philosophers of old, but that we should not presume to place to much importance on their ideas. We should let Christ supersede by all means those ideas of philosophy.
As I have been studying the Emerging Church and their movement, I see a similar argument arising. One group trying very hard to be relevant to a philosophical movement (post-modernism, whatever that may be), and one group saying that we should not adopt the morias of our culture, rather change them to be Christ-like. I am wondering who our Augustine will be that will help unite the cause in understanding. It seems like the two voices that are predominant in this discussion really do take the thing entirely too far.