Sentences with phrase «developed scholasticism»

It was during this time that the Church developed scholasticism, built the Gothic cathedrals (with their stained - glass windows and monuments), created the universities and the hospitals, encouraged the sciences and technical progress, perfected international relations between states, abolished slavery, advanced social progress and raised the condition of women, in such a way that, in the fourteenth century, Europe had far surpassed all the other continents.

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

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I think, however, that we should not concentrate on technical issues alone and develop a kind of Whiteheadian scholasticism.

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.

Russell Hittinger has brought out further complexities of Thomistic developments in the wake of Aeterni Paths: «Thomists developed rather freewheeling accounts of the political, economic, legal and social order -LSB-... putting] Thomism in an offensive mode as far as social doctrine went -LSB-... whereas] in matters related to sacred doctrine [philosophical] Thomism would be put into a defensive role» such that scholasticism could not be publicly challenged within the Church.

European culture developed with a complex range of philosophy, medieval scholasticism and mysticism, and Christian and secular humanism.