Posted on 12/30/2008 12:10:58 PM PST by Gamecock
Scholasticism
(Gk. scholastikos, “schooled” or “educated”)
Scholasticism was a school of thought which sought to reconcile the established Christian belief within a body of reason or rational thought, especially that of Greek philosophy. The “scholastic period” primarily refers to the period during the late middle ages (eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries) in the West when Christianity was experiencing a renaissance of learning and education and was being challenged by the rational thought of Islam. Early Christian scholastics include Anselm, Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and Thomas Aquinas. The term can also refer to any system of thought which seeks a reconciliation of their beliefs with rationality and philosophical inquiry (i.e. Protestant scholaticism).
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Islam? Rational?
I just post them.
I know. :-) I just found that wording to be...interesting, to say the least.
Good post. Few know that the great universities of the Renaissance started as cathedral schools during the high middle ages. Church intellectuals were true philosophers.
and was being challenged by the rational thought of Islam.
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Islam has never been “rational”.
The system of philosophy and theology first developed in the medieval schools of Christian Europe, having a scholastic or technical language and methodology, building on the writings of the Church Fathers, notably St. Augustine (354-430), using many of the philosophical principles and insights of Aristotle and Neoplatonism, and co-ordinated into a synthesis of human and divine wisdom by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74).
Three periods of Scholasticism are commonly distinguished: medieval period from St. Anselm to Jean Capréolus (1060-1440); Counter-Reformation or the Spanish-Portuguese Revival (1520-1640), declining after the rise of Protestantism and the spread of Cartesianism; and Neo-Scholasticism, officially recognized by Pope Leo XIII in 1879, beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century to the present time. (Etym. Latin schola, place of learning, school; from Greek schol_, school; discussion; rest, leisure, employment of leisure time.)
The renaissance had far more to do with the education of a gentlemanly “citzens”class in late medieval cities. with emphasis on an “active”life rather than a comtemplative one, an education for the laity based on Latin and Greek classics rather than the Bible and theology. To a degree it was a return to the kind of education that St. Augustine received in the 4th Century and in which he participated as a teacher before his conversion.
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