Sentences with phrase «for scholasticism»

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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

Those concerned with Luther thus have little reason for concern with tradition, which — as «scholasticism,» «mysticism,» or «traditional dogma» — serves mostly as a foil for Luther's «discovery.»

For them the world is still the old medieval world with its scholasticism.

«Whether it is ignorance or fear, or both, that inspires this conduct in them, certain it is that the passion for novelty is always united in them with hatred of scholasticism, and there is no surer sign that a man is tending to Modernism than when he begins to show his dislike for the scholastic method.»

To be heard carping at scholasticism was a ground for dismissing faculty and administrators at ecclesiastical schools.

3 For a discussion of this way of understanding the reception of form «without matter, see my article «Sensing and the Sensitive Mean,» The New Scholasticism 47/3 (Summer, 1973), 279 - 310.

Similarly, Lindsell's historical analysis has some validity for the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, which took theological shape in a confessional reaction to the 19th century emergence of the «Evangelical United Front» — a reaction grounded in Lutheran scholasticism just as the Princeton theology was grounded in Reformed scholasticism.

I have argued for it in «Sensing and the Sensitive Mean in Aristotle,» The New Scholasticism 47/3 (Summer, 1973), 279 - 310.

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

Descartes proposed, from the very beginning of his first (unfinished) treatise Rules for the Direction of the Mind in 1628 refounding «deduction», and mathematics, by «intuited» (later «innate», Meditations, 7:64 — 5, 72 — 3) ideas rather than scholasticism's, by now discredited, «abstracted concepts».

This diversity is different from other epochs - for example, the time when a Princeton scholasticism dominated the 19th - century Protestant landscape, or even the recent period when neo-orthodoxy was at the least the common reference point for theological debate.

For all his warnings about the hubris of theological systems, his dogmatic theology looked like a massive new scholasticism.

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 private correspondence during the 1950s Dawson expressed serious doubts about this situation, offering the judgment that philosophy and theology were suitable subjects only for those who were already educated, and suggesting that the medieval universities had ultimately been killed by the dominance of scholasticism.

These are merely part of the «etiological myth» to account for death produced by a traditional Christianity influenced by Jewish and Greek cultural concerns, by scholasticism, by the «personal preoccupations» ofAugustine (and Luther), and continued by Anselm, Aquinas and the Council of Trent (p88).

An intense individualist and having no use for monks or scholasticism, reluctantly a priest, he was sincerely Christian and wished to see the Church purged of superstition and to return to the ethical teachings of Christ.

It is also what some critics call an «encyclopedic novel,» at once a fictional distillation of a civilization — in this case, that of medieval Britain, or at least a vision of it — complete with the arcana of various subjects (in this case, medieval warfare, falconry, heraldry, hagiography, psalters, scholasticism, and so on) that you expect from Pynchon and DeLillo, and the highly individual vision of a writer who is using Malory's vast romance as a springboard for his own imagination.

(AP, n. 31) As scholars deepened their research into its sources, it became increasingly evident that Scholasticism did not constitute a single metaphysical system: for example

Another significant motive for the affirmation of the a priori «Act of Existence» as that which transcends definitive intelligibility was the attempt to handle the difficult fact that scholasticism's approach to such abstract intelligibility of the «essence» prescinds from whether or not that thing actually exists.

In response the Church's most brilliant minds, Jesuits like Kleutgen and Liberatore, called for a return to a unified approach to philosophy and theology, the precedent and model for which they saw in medieval Scholasticism.

Of course, someone might say that the academy — for the first time since scholasticism was eschewed — really had settled on a consensus.

Scholasticism and fallacious arguments will exist, but they need to be seen for what they are: not science.