Where do Abrahamic religions fall among the six systems of philosophy?

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Hare Krishna.
Question what is the standing of the non-Vedic religions such as Christianity and Islam with respect to the six systems of philosophy? Answer the six systems of philosophy are not an exhaustive analysis of the various systems of thought that are possible within the range of human thought. The six systems are the primary systems that have developed within India but the essential point is to recognize that all over the world, God has made arrangement for people to get elevated. Now, the extent of the elevation, the ease of the elevation and the overall depth of the understanding which is shared in the elevation, that may vary from place to place but God always makes himself available everywhere.
So, it’s not that all the systems of philosophy all over the world have to fall within the six systems. No. They are six broad ways of looking at the world which have developed in India and there are similarities between the six systems of philosophy and different philosophies that have developed in different parts of the world.
There are different similarities and there are some significant differences also. Now, if you want to map the Abrahamic religions like Christianity, Islam, Judaism into which of the six systems they correlate with, they will be broadly within the theistic Vedanta. Among the six systems of philosophy, there is Vedanta which is considered the conclusive and in Vedanta, there is Advaitic Vedanta and there is Dvaitic Vedanta.
Dvaitic, that means the Vedanta in which there are understood to be two realities. There is a Supreme Lord and there are living beings and they are eternally different. Although they are related but there is still a difference that is continuing eternally.
So, this is also called as theistic Vedanta because in this, the concept of a personal God and worship to that God is there. So, to a large extent, Christianity and Islam and Judaism will have similarity to theistic Vedanta but the depth of the philosophical analysis that is there in theistic Vedanta that is not found anywhere in the seminal scriptures of these religions, the Old Testament, the New Testament or the Bible. This sort of depth is not found over there.
Although, of course, subsequent thinkers within these traditions try to integrate the basic message of their scriptures with the prevailing schools of thought. For example, Greco-Roman thought. So, Saint Augustine integrated biblical teachings with Plato’s ideas and he made the biblical, the Christian theologies deeper and similarly, this was in the early days of Christianity, at almost 1000-1200 years, 12-1300 years later into the history of Christianity, Thomas Aquinas integrated Bible’s teachings with the teaching of Aristotle, who is also another Greek, prominent Greek philosopher and through that he got another kind of depth to Christianity.
So, these two are actually often contradictory ideas within contradictory. There is significant difference between Aquinas and Augustine’s understanding of Christian theology or biblical theology. But broadly speaking, the Abrahamic religions will roughly correlate with the Dvaita Vedanta or theistic Vedanta within the six systems of philosophy.
Thank you.