Sentences with word «scholasticism»

As noted above Leo XIII called for a renewed study of Scholasticism at a particular point in history and with reference to particular threats to the integrity of the Church's teachings: St. Thomas» thought was singled out as the adequate response to these threats.
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.
For all his warnings about the hubris of theological systems, his dogmatic theology looked like a massive new 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.
Instead, several of the authors take up the heritage of Reformed scholasticism (figures such as Francis Turretin, Girolamo Zanchi, Amandus Polanus, and Johannes Wollebius) as well as that of Aquinas.
In that way prehension comprises that highest form of natural process ascribed by Aristotle to living beings and which Scholasticism conceived as motus sui, as actualization of itself through itself.15 Whitehead matches Aristotle in so many main points not least because both are mainly concerned with living beings and their self - development.
An old adage of Catholic scholasticism says: whatever is received is received according to the mode of the recipient.
In time increasing emphasis was placed on dogma — a kind of Lutheran scholasticism.
The enormous philosophical reliance of theology can be noted in the dependence of Augustine on neo-platonism, Aquinas on Aristotle, Luther on nominalism, Lutheran confessionalism on scholasticism, and, since 1800, liberal theology on Kant.
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.
Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned [scholasticism] almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.
[Scholasticism] is a highly technical, subtle discipline, not easily grasped or assimilated.
In the Middle Ages Catholic scholars developed Scholasticism, the reconciling of Greek thought (Aristotle) with Christian thought.
To be heard carping at scholasticism was a ground for dismissing faculty and administrators at ecclesiastical schools.
He was unsparing in his criticisms of the dry scholasticism taught in the seminaries of his day because it ignored how modern science had changed philosophy.
That brings him far closer to the philosophic mood of our time than any rigid Whiteheadian scholasticism would allow.
We may bring cartoon critiques of arid Scholasticism to our reading of Trapani's account of Maritain, but they will not come out alive.
Perspectives in Philosophy Volume 1: A Critique of an abstract Scholasticism and principles towards replacement
In Isaacson's opinion, da Vinci attained greatness by avoiding the Church's «authorized creed» of «dusty Scholasticism
One might well expect that the result of this first post-war phase would be a period of Bultmannian scholasticism.
It is just this scholastic ground of the Catholic doctrine of analogy which I attempted to oppose, and my opposition was intended to be based upon a theological ground far more fundamental than any that is present in either medieval or modern scholasticism.
I would suggest, rather, that scholasticism apprehends the abstract potency of the Godhead, while a radical and dialectical theology is in quest of the meaning of the final actualization and realization of that potency, and therefore in quest of the meaning of the ultimate victory of Christ.
Most of those «theories» were pre-scientific and / or based on religious scholasticism (e.g., «the earth is the center of the universe»).
Clericalism and a dry scholasticism drained much of its vitality away.
But once Scholasticism - gone - mad had been reined in, those words would have a different ring.
But to avoid this we should not and do not need, we suggest in this piece, to deny in any way Christ's actual physical identity to the intrinsic bread - like properties of the Blessed Sacrament, as prominent scholasticism seems to do.
Medieval scholasticism combined Greek and Hebrew emphases.
Where, after all, did Aristotle and scholasticism get their concept of «form» if not from (relatively accurate) observation of the natural world?
A discussion concerning the necessity of finding a way of reconciling Christian theism with the truth of Aristotle and the world of Muslim scholars concerning scholasticism, and the continuing problem that develops where the dynamic interactions between the Gospel and cultures inevitable raise the question of syncretism.
But we claim to have that greater respect for scholasticism which R. R. Reno, the editor of First Things, calls for.
So Pope Francis retreats to weasel words such as «accompaniment» and in his own way recapitulates the super-subtle scholasticism of the theorists of exceptions who came to prominence after Vatican II.
The greatest Catholic theologian of our times, Hans Urs von Balthasar, turned in his magisterial Herrlichkeit (The Glory of the Lord), to the theme of beauty as a way of reviving a theology sterilised by rationalism and narrow scholasticism.
The most enjoyable essay in this collection is Lawrence's appreciation of Fortin, which chronicles Fortin's contributions to theology against the backdrop of declining scholasticism and rising relativism.
-LCB- Nineteenth Century Scholasticism, Fordham, 1999, p. 257.)
Scholasticism argued that this truth about the soul could be rationally inferred from the characteristic activity of «abstract thought».
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