The term
"scholastic tradition" refers to a way of studying and teaching that developed in medieval Europe. It emphasizes logical reasoning, debate, and the analysis of classical texts.
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His delineation of «decline» and «apostasy» is more valid for groups that stand directly in the line of the «Princeton theology» and
other scholastic traditions and less valid for others.
In the
Western scholastic tradition this theology has been named «Scotist» after Blessed John Duns Scotus who frames the question in terms of the glorification of the human nature of Christ as the highest good of creation:
Yet even a modest familiarity with
the Scholastic tradition may lead one to wonder how many of the proposals offered as needed trinitarian novelties, here and elsewhere, have already been scrutinized, and perhaps found wanting, by the long departed inhabitants of that mostly uncharted land.
Caldecott's metaphysical starting point is in line with
the scholastic tradition.
Both Rahner and Holloway were attempting to synthesise
the scholastic tradition with modern philosophical insights, these latter being much more established in Rahner's case - namely emerging from the Existentialist tradition.
Our lead letter laments, with us, the failure of
the scholastic tradition, from Descartes to its virtual collapse during the 20th century, to allow the implications of scientific methodology to shape our metaphysics.
He by no means rejects
the scholastic tradition of philosophy and theology, believing it to be the only sound basis on which to proceed, but he does present a comprehensive realignment of its details.
In order to demonstrate the central importance of the humanities, Beckett attempts a recuperation of the Augustinian tradition of thought (distinguished from
the scholastic tradition founded on Aquinas).
Holloway by no means rejects
the scholastic tradition of philosophy and theology but does present a substantial development of its basic principles, in the process bringing about a comprehensive realignment of its details.
He also shows how
the scholastic tradition needs to distinguish such «normal» observation, from which we can get «perennial» metaphysical principles, from that science which intrinsically involves instrumental observation and precise mathematics.
Unlike
the Scholastic tradition, Whitehead rejects any notion of God as the philosophical ultimate who is self - sufficient and beyond the laws of nature.
This largely positive attitude to
the scholastic tradition makes perfect sense given the aims of «Reformed catholicity.»
One reflection of the movement's philosophical weakness was its prejudice against
the scholastic tradition, at least in its contemporary guises.
Thomas Aquinas and
the scholastic tradition further clarified that the soul is non-material and metaphysically distinct from the body.
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