[Kolokotronis]

I’ll do the heavy reading later, but it occurs to me already that the West would have been better served had it simply stuck with +Athanasius the Great.

[annalex]

There are no new ideas in this installment. The symmetry with Genesis 3 is, of course, noted as early as in St. Justin Martyr. I did not want to fast-forward to the dealings with the devil that are going to come up next.

[Mad Dawg]

Let me sling this clay pigeon up and you shoot it down:

I wonder if Scholasticism arose in the West as an effort to bolster the armamentarium for responses to heresies.

I don't know about controversies in the East and how they were dealt with. I DO get the impression that for a while there scholasticism in the West led to a kind of Free Republic argumentativeness -- "You're a heretic," "I know you are but what am I?""I'm rubber, you're glue ..."