HIST-308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 3: Summa Theologica, Scholasticism
16 Jan 2020
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Scholastic theology: dominant form of theological discussion and education in the. Emerged in the 11th-12th centuries to understand christian doctrine through philosophy and use of reason. St. thomas aquinas (1225-74): his summa theologica explains many facets of. Christian beliefs and practices in great detail and thought. It includes objections, questions, proof context on the contrary, and all of his answers to them. His expert on transubstantion for eucharist interpretation was the most divisive issue of the reformation because it put protestants against each other and the catholic church too. His position shows that the catholic church will reaffirm and retain during the. He based it on the aristotelian view on "substance": the essence or true nature of a thing and "accidents": how it appears to the senses. By the time the reformation happened, scholasticism faced challenges by humanism. It was an entirely different way of studying that came from the renaissance.
