What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?

The title of this post would be familiar to most theologically hip westerners as the infamous statement of the early church father Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 220 CE), “Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymis?” The tension that is transparent in this statement may be a very familiar feeling to the western christian but is almost certainly unknown to us. So some b…