Sentences with phrase «theology as the queen»

Thus philosophy was recognized, not as one academic discipline among others, distinguished by its subject matter, but as replacing theology as the queen of the sciences.

Its task was not to provide an overarching context, since it no longer located theology as the queen of the sciences.

Not exact matches

For example, on the one hand, when St Thomas Aquinas in his great mediaeval theological works treats theology as the «queen of the sciences», yet «the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the study of nature» (p. 81)-- it «had not resulted in a sterile fusion» (p. 84).

Theology may be, as the medieval church called it, the queen of the sciences,» but this queen is not a tyrant.

Even simple ordinary folk today put reason before faith, unlike before the «enlightenment» when theology was accepted as the «queen of sciences» and science its handmaid.

Most of the students were in holy orders and theology was regarded as the «queen of the sciences».

Reason - based kalam could not become the «queen of sciences,» as theology did in the Latin West and remained subordinate to traditional ijtahid.

Theology was the queen of the sciences, and these latter gradually began to emerge as individual disciplines.

In this instance, as in others, theology remains the queen of the sciences.

Today, far from being seen as the queen of sciences, theology has effectively been excluded from any synthetic understanding of the world.

Although theology was no longer queen of the sciences, it held its head high in the German universities and had the respect of the culture, as well as the church.