Scholasticism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCHOLASTICISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the aims, methods, and products of thought which constituted the main endeavour of the intellectual life of the Middle Ages
• narrow-minded insistence on traditional doctrine
• the system of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities, based on Aristotelian logic and the writings of the early Christian Fathers and emphasizing tradition and dogma.
• The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
• the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
• orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• capitalized a philosophical movement dominant in western Christian civilization from the 9th until the 17th century and combining religious dogma with the mystical and intuitional tradition of patristic philosophy especially of St. Augustine and later with Aristotelianism; neo-scholasticism

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How to use SCHOLASTICISM in a sentence

• The preceding generation had exhibited the final triumph of common sense over the pedantry of a decaying scholasticism.
• It was reserved for the triple star which has been mentioned to overthrow Scholasticism.
• A mirror of modern culture, and conscious of its sharp antithesis to Scholasticism, modern philosophy in its pre-Kantian period is pre-eminently characterized by naturalism.
• This was Scholasticism, which was the natural and inevitable consequence of the study of Greek dialectic and philosophy.
• Indeed the whole of his work is a symphony of feeling, a song of Love, and forms a curious reaction against the exaltation of reason and logic in scholasticism.
• Thus architecture in its third Renaissance period passed into scholasticism.
• The latter part of the eighteenth century marked a breaking away from the Protestant scholasticism of the Reformation theology.
• Thus he paved the way for Zwingli and the Protestant scholasticism which became more rigid and sterile than the Catholic which it succeeded.
• Bolshevism is the product of perverted German scholasticism.
• Christianity, even with its lustre dimmed, its purity tarnished, its simplicity overlaid with scholasticism, was better than these.
• In the history of scholasticism there were three distinct epochs.
• The door for the entrance of scholasticism was thrown wide open.
• On the one hand was dogmatism, with its endless distinctions, begotten and fostered by Scholasticism.
• Cocceius, the celebrated opponent of Scholasticism, was born in Bremen, in 1603.
• Scholasticism, one of the elements of the degeneracy of the Dutch Church, 336.
• So there is a political scholasticism that is merely useless.
• He saw the First and Second Crusades, the rising liberties of the communes, and the beginnings of scholasticism under Abelard.
• Over this the intellectual battles of the first age of Scholasticism were fought.
• Hence the breach between mysticism and scholasticism is not really so wide as may appear at first sight.
• Indeed, scholasticism officially recognised three branches of theology, of which the MYSTICAL was one.
• Scholasticism, the high point of intellectual activity in the Church, reached its culmination in Thomas Aquinas.
• It was the very philosophy of knowledge which, in my revolt against scholasticism, underwent such a profound modification.
• Sulpice, where talent was held of no account, and where scholasticism and erudition alone were prized.
• Gosselin, by his confidence in scholasticism, confirmed me in my rationalism, though not to so great an extent as M.
• His theology was borrowed almost entirely from the German Catholic School, which was at once more advanced, and less reasonable, than our ancient French scholasticism.
• If scholasticism is the descendant in the first generation of St.
• This has happened twice since the downfall of the degenerate Scholasticism, Protestant and Roman, of the sixteenth century.
• That was the object of scholasticism, and, so far as I am aware, the object of modern science may be expressed in the same terms.
• But there is a more cheerful mode of looking at the history of scholasticism.
• Most of the primitive beliefs and superstitions of Nepal and Tibet were absorbed in the ever hungry and devouring system of Buddhistic scholasticism.

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