Methods and Mysteries
Where the methods of Scholasticism came out of
What is teaching technique that developed in the universities?
The things the Summa Theologiae sets out to understand(2)
The town in which St. Thomas Aquinas was born
This shifted the focus from God to man and his gifts
What is humanism?
This person said that faith and reason did not need to be and were not opposed to one another
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
Who Anselm collected authoritative statements from
Who are the Church Fathers?
What St Thomas used to shed light on the mysteries of Christian Doctrine
What is philosophy?
The way St Thomas Aquinas escaped imprisonment
What is his sisters lowered him in a basket over the castle walls?
Bl John Duns Scotus reasoning helped contribute to this dogma
What is the Immaculate Conception?
What is questioning?
What happened to St Thomas while offering Mass in Naples in 1273
What is mystical vision?
St Thomas was put under these people's care when he was five
Who are the Benedictines of Monte Cassino?
The leading Augustinian idea that Bl John Duns Scotus rejected
What is certitude can only come from divine illumination?
This man's work became the handbook of theologians and part of every professor's curriculum
Who is Peter Lombard?
What was discussed and collected in the Books of Sentences by Peter Lombard
What are opinions of the Church Fathers and earlier theologians pertaining to Revelation?
What St Thomas's books and treatises remain
What is unsurpassed as a comprehensive and thorough theological and philosophical understanding of God?
St. Thomas Aquinas's reaction to his brothers sending a woman to try to seduce him
What is snatching a firebrand from the fireplace and driving her away?
What St Thomas Aquinas and Bl. John Duns Scotus furthered developed in the West
What are philosophy and theology?
This man said there are limits to reason and logic when it comes to understanding the nature of God.
Who is Bl. John Duns Scotus?
The way Scholasticism grew
What is a continual questioning of the contradictions that arose in previously formulated schools of thought?
The purpose of much of St Thomas Aquinas's work
What is rectifying a philosophical problem that arose from the rediscovery of the Greek philosopher Aristotle?
This person said "this Dumb Ox shall bellow so loud that his bellowings will fill the world"
Who is St. Albert the Great?
The reason Thomas Aquinas's work was not immediately accepted as orthodox and reliable Christian theology
What is various thinkers were apprehensive concerning his adherence to Aristotelian logic?
The discovery of this person's thought would revolutionize theology and subsequently elicit debate and controversy
Who is Aristotle?