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Scholasticism is a method of learning more than a philosophy or a theology, since it places a strong emphasis on dialectical reasoning to extend knowledge by inference and to resolve contradictions. Scholastic thought is also known for rigorous conceptual analysis and the careful drawing of distinctions.
Lutheranism. Lutheran orthodoxy was an era in the history of Lutheranism, which began in 1580 from the writing of the Book of Concord and ended at the Age of Enlightenment. Lutheran orthodoxy was paralleled by similar eras in Calvinism and tridentine Roman Catholicism after the Counter-Reformation. Lutheran scholasticism was a theological ...
t. e. Mystical theology is the branch of theology in the Christian tradition that deals with divine encounter [1] and the self-communication of God with the faithful; [2] such as to explain mystical practices and states, as induced by contemplative practices such as contemplative prayer, called theoria from the Greek for contemplation.
e. Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation [of the person] for, the consciousness of, and the effect of [...] a direct and transformative presence of God " [1] or divine love. [2] Until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was ...
A Christian Looks at the Jewish Question (1939) The Twilight of Civilization (1939) Scholasticism and Politics, New York (1940) Science and Wisdom (1940) Religion and the Modern World (1941) France, My Country Through the Disaster (1941) The Living Thoughts of St. Paul (1941) France, My Country, Through the Disaster (1941) Ransoming the Time (1941)
Catholic philosophy. Neo-scholasticism (also known as neo-scholastic Thomism [1] or neo-Thomism because of the great influence of the writings of Thomas Aquinas on the movement) is a revival and development of medieval scholasticism in Catholic theology and philosophy which began in the second half of the 19th century.
Calvinist scholasticism or Reformed scholasticism was a theological method that gradually developed during the era of Calvinist Orthodoxy. Theologians used the neo-Aristotelian form of presentation, already popular in academia, in their writings and lectures. They defined the Reformed faith and defended it against the polemics of opposing parties.
In Scholasticism Reformed: Essays in Honour of Willem J. van Asselt, edited by Maarten Wisse, Marcel Sarot, and Willemien Otten, 92–102. Leiden: Brill, 2010. “Philip Doddridge and the Formulation of Calvinistic Theology in an Era of Rationalism and Deconfessionalization.”