Sentences with phrase «catholic scholasticism»

An old adage of Catholic scholasticism says: whatever is received is received according to the mode of the recipient.

Both Catholic Scholasticism and Protestant Orthodoxy sought to steer a middle course between such false notions of divine transparency and divine opacity by insisting on the distinction between first and second causes.

Not exact matches

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

In the Middle Ages Catholic scholars developed Scholasticism, the reconciling of Greek thought (Aristotle) with Christian thought.

The orthodox manualists of either Roman Catholic or Protestant Scholasticism were nothing if not clear about their mostly deductive methods for theological argument.

Earlier related works include «Freedom As Perfection: Whitehead, Thomas and Augustine» Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, XXXVI (1962), 134 - 142; «Whitehead's Challenge to Theistic Realism,» The New Scholasticism, XXXVIII, 1 (January 1964), 1 - 21; and «Is God Really Related to This World?»

Although he first worked in medieval scholasticism, by 1919 he wrote to his earlier Catholic mentor that he no longer found «the system of Catholicism» acceptable.

It would be an exaggeration to say that traditional theology has been mistaken in speaking of revelation in propositional terms, for example, during the period in which Scholasticism was virtually equated with Catholic theology.

In Twentieth - Century Catholic Theologians (2007) the British Dominican Fergus Kerr has shown how the often - insightful developments of the Nouvelle Theologie stepped too easily beyond some of the careful and necessary metaphysical and epistemological distinctions worked out by the older scholasticism.

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In the early modern era, the Council of Trent was a thorough and rigorous response to the developing Protestant critique of the Church, and the Renaissance was driven in part by Catholic humanists moderating the sometimes dry and legalistic scholasticism of the middle ages.

The first is that of a modified Aristotelian philosophy as employed by Roman Catholic and Protestant Scholasticism.