They sought to critique itself an aspect of the Aristotelian method rather than censor revolutionary ideas. What resulted was the gradual incorporation of the new ideas into Christian thought.
It was a brief moment of near harmony between what we now call science and religion. Peter Abelard, Francis of Assisi, Siger de Brabant, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas—each churchman formed a successive wave of Aristotelian thought to refute a previous wave, with ever decreasing reference to Scripture. In Christianity, reason and theology did not entirely fuse and eventually split entirely in the Enlightenment, but this was all for the eventual benefit of Aristotle, whose ideas thrived in the creative tension.
This tension was, at base, a debate between methods of attaining knowledge: one divinely revealed, the other gained by rational inquiry. It is instructive to note how the pursuit of humanly derived knowledge shaped mainstream Christianity, distorting biblical ideas out of all recognition.
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