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Stephen F. Brown on Theology and Philosophy in the 13th and 14th centuries

September 13, 2024 Clifton Stringer

What’s the right relationship between Theology and Philosophy? The scholastics have some wisdom on this…

“The scholastics of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were theologians essentially, philosophers only incidentally. Their reasoning was a concentrated effort to penetrate the mysteries of the Christian faith; their philosophy was the handmaid of theology. None the less, it is a striking historical fact that these great theologians were equally great as philosophers. Being theologians, they did not care to start by developing a complete philosophy. Rather they developed their theology and philosophy in organic integration, so that theology was constantly fertilised by philosophic speculation and philosophy remained under the guidance of Christian dogma.”  - Stephen F. Brown, “Introduction” to Ockham: Philosophical Writings, xvi-xvii.

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