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Christian Revelation provided man with a number of truths guaranteed by divine authority; these truths were accepted by faith and transmitted to us by the magisterium of the Church. Far from hindering the development of the intellectual life, the Christian faith was a source of science and wisdom...the church rendered a great service to the cause of truth protecting literature and the sciences, founding abbeys & scho
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The sermons of Prevostin of Cremona severely censured the 'vain wisdom' cultivated by logicians and the lovers of 'useless subtleties' in the 'philosophical faculties'. Theologians were warned against introducing philosophy into the study of Holy Scripture: odibiles Deo erimus, strepitum ranarum Egyptii in terra Gessen traducere molientes. In his Summa theologiae Prevostin did not conceal his anger at the logomachia
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In spite of the improvement in medieval studies, many disciples of Aquinas still treat Thomism as if it were timeless, and interpret it without taking sufficient account of the historical environment in which it came to birth...
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