Sentences with phrase «late scholasticism»

Credo ut intelligam, believe in order that you may understand, was the motto of most medieval philosophy and theology, even of late scholasticism.

It is fashionable at present, among some theologians, to attempt precise genealogies of modernity, which in general I would rather avoid doing; but it does seem clear to me that the special preoccupations and perversities of modern philosophy were incubated in the age of late Scholasticism, with the rise of nominalism and voluntarism.

Not exact matches

Because of the tendency in Luther and the reformers to distinguish between grace and law» understandable relative to late - medieval scholasticism» Protestants ever since have erected a false dichotomy between grace and law that has had debilitating effects in theology, ethics, and public policy.

At this point, the sword placed in the Reformers» hands became the weapon used to decapitate late medieval Scholasticism.

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».