The Medieval MindContent: New Religious Orientation - Christianity: the Formative years - Augustine: God the Creator - Augustine: the Created Universe - Medieval interval - Thomas: Metaphysics - Thomas: Psychology, ethics, Politics - End of the Middle ages. |
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... authority of the Church depended upon there being no question about the authority of its officers . Similarly , Catholicism had to hold that the efficacy of the sacraments flows from the fact that they are the Church's . If their ...
... authority of the Church depended upon there being no question about the authority of its officers . Similarly , Catholicism had to hold that the efficacy of the sacraments flows from the fact that they are the Church's . If their ...
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... authority of revelation . The classical mind , for its part , rested on no special revelation ; what it knew it had discovered through its own efforts . This was possible because the things the Greeks were primarily interested in - man ...
... authority of revelation . The classical mind , for its part , rested on no special revelation ; what it knew it had discovered through its own efforts . This was possible because the things the Greeks were primarily interested in - man ...
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... authority , and is impeded in no way . " The basis for this choice was his conviction that " reason is prior in nature , but authority in time . For although the nature has been created simultaneously with time , nevertheless the authority ...
... authority , and is impeded in no way . " The basis for this choice was his conviction that " reason is prior in nature , but authority in time . For although the nature has been created simultaneously with time , nevertheless the authority ...
Contents
The Formative Years | 38 |
John and the Logos Mystery | 50 |
Heresy and Orthodoxy | 60 |
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Abelard according actually animal argument Aristotle Aristotle's Augustine Augustine's authority Bacon believed body called cause century Christ Christian Church City of God conceived conception course created creature distinction divine doctrine Donatists Duns Duns's Empire essence eternal ethics evil existence experience fact faith Father finite follows Gnostics God's grace Greek held Hence human Ibid individual instance intellect Jesus Jesus movement Jews kind knowledge live Lord man's Manichees matter means medieval merely metaphysical Middle Ages mind Mithraism moral moved movement mystic nature Neoplatonism notion object Occam orthodoxy particular Paul Pelagians perfect philosophical Plato Plotinus point of view possible principle problem Ques question rational reality reason salvation seems sense Socrates soul spirit substance Summa Contra Gentiles Summa Theologica Thee theology theory things Thomas Thomistic Thou thought truth understand universe unmoved mover virtue whole words Yahweh