He was trying to present in intellectual fashion, in a style appropriate to the high discipline of the schools, a description of theology which was dynamic, «divine» and, in the end, one strictly «indescribable» on account of its nature as the working of the «holy spirit». (religion-online.org)
Their narrators struggle with a variety of worldly lures and intellectual fashions not unlike those with which Augustine wrestled in the vibrant world of the late Roman empire but that were unknown to those going through their daily rounds within the cloister walls of medieval Europe. (firstthings.com)
Generations ago, around the time of Stanley Williams» 1935 study of the man and his works, intellectual fashion made one of its less attractive lurches towards ignorance when it decided that Washington Irving was no genius, but a rather light - weight and decidedly second - rate writer. (firstthings.com)