Sentences with phrase «medieval scholasticism»

Neoclassical economics bears great resemblance — both theoretically and institutionally — to medieval scholasticism.

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

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.

Medieval scholasticism combined Greek and Hebrew emphases.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

This is why post-Reformation Protestant scholasticism, according to Willem van Asselt, was «much broader and more diverse in its use of materials of the Christian tradition, particularly the medieval scholastic doctors,» than were the Reformers themselves.

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.

But a theological inquiry that narrows the historical community, that excludes from the conversation such men as the early Fathers of the Church, or the medieval theologians, or the Reformers, or the sectarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the Puritans, Pietists and social gospelers, or such movements as monasticism, scholasticism, Biblicism, et cetera impoverishes itself from the beginning.