Sentence examples for medieval scholastic from inspiring English sources

For all the anthropocentric humanism of Medieval scholastic thought, the heart of the Medieval thinker beat to the Gothic rhythm of puny, cipher-like Man, cringing before the overwhelming force of God's drama as it played itself out across the uncertain face of the fallen world.

For medieval Scholastic philosophers, free will was a theological problem.

St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224 74) was the greatest of the medieval Scholastic philosophers.

The Aristotelian system of classification was further developed by some medieval Scholastic philosophers, notably Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.

UNIVERSITIES the world over love symbols, from medieval scholastic garb at degree ceremonies to the owls, martlets, chevrons and scrolls of scholastic heraldry.

Calvinism underwent further development as theologians, apparently dissatisfied with Calvin's loose rhetorical writing, adopted the style of Scholastic theologians and even appealed to medieval Scholastic authorities.

Medieval scholastics pushed further toward the idea of the "practical application" of theoretical knowledge.

Medieval scholastics are reputed to have enjoyed debating how many angels you can fit on the head of a pin.

He had in mind not only the medieval Scholastics and their followers but also some of his older contemporaries.

Emotions were central to Aristotle's ethics of virtue and part and parcel of the medieval Scholastics' concern with vices, virtues, and sin.

Learned counsel for the State Department and the White House are giving answers to such questions that would make medieval scholastics and others who prize logic and semantics blush with embarrassment.