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The intellectual tradition that the Middle Ages took over from the Church of late antiquity was one
of an intellectual synthesis between Christian doctrine and pagan cosmological ideas, mainly viewed
in a neoplatonic perspective. The high Middle Ages rebuilt this pagan/Christian synthesis by a more
direct appropriation of Greek philosophy, this time from Aristotle. This began the framework (
via
antiqua
) for theology, for both the Roman Catholic Thomists and the Protestant Scholastics from the
major Reformers onwards. There was, however, a medieval critique of this synthesis from a Christian
perspective (
via moderna
), and eventually a Modern critique from a secularizing perspective. The
Via Moderna
page tries to find a distinction between the medieval rejection of pagan elements that
entered Christianity and the modern critique of the synthesis, which is more aimed at removing the
Christian elements that remained. It is an attempt to avoid the prejudices of modern philosophy as
well as the earlier pagan-christian synthesis of the
Via Antiqua
, while also avoiding the
conundrums
of presuppsitional foundationalism
; and to distinguish the
priority of the moral over the
epistemological
from the construction of epistemology itself.
“Theology is not a science in the sense that physics is a science. Theology may present its
postulates in a systematic and logical form, but in the final analysis it rests on faith and
persuasion. The great thirteenth-century scholastics all knew this. None the less, and
doubtless for valid historical reasons, scholastic theology gradually was absorbed into
becoming part of an organized system of studying and teaching which was more suited to
promoting the ends of ecclesiastical bureaucracy or the administration of ecclesiastical law
than to inducing in mankind the motivation and behavior that would presumably cure their
souls for this life and lead them to salvation in the next.”
“It was the very great intellectual and historical contribution of fourteenth-century
nominalism to prove by the very same methods within the self-same establishment of
universities and religious orders that not only the methodology but also the metaphysical
content of the predecessor’s thought was irrelevant for the basic goals of the Christian
religion, salvation and life according to the Gospels.” Charles Trinkaus,
In Our Image and
Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought
(University of Notre Dame Press,
1970, 1995) pp. 556-557.
Via Moderna
John Knox on Rebellion Against Evil Authority
Thomas Reid, Foundationalism, and Presuppositionalism
The Glover Thesis on the Origins of Modernity
Roman Catholic
Logos
Speculation: A New Scholastic Synthesis?
The Origins of Freemasonry and Occult Practices in Relation to Reformation Thought
Three Theories of Power and Bits of Others
(Review of
Authority in the Christian Life
by Jean-
Marc Berthoud)
The Fatal Flaws of the Thomist Greek – Christian Philosophical Synthesis, Review of Bernie van
der Walt, T
homas Aquinas and the Neo-Thomist Tradition: A Christian-Philosophical Assessment
Review of
Resistance to Tyrants: Romans 13 and the Christian Duty to Oppose Wicked Rulers
, by
Gordan Runyan
Review of
The Establishment and Limits of Civil Government: An Exposition of Romans 13:1-7
by James M. Willson
Review of
Patterns in History: A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought
, by David
Bebbington
Review of
Natural Rights Theories: Their origin and development
by Richard Tuck
Natural Law and Natural Rights Before Liberalism - Two books by Francis Oakley
The Manent Thesis That Natural Rights Political Theories Were Created Against Christianity
No Dispensationalism Before Darby
, Review of
Dispensationalism Before Darby
by William C.
Watson
An Overview of Millennial Systems, with a review of
The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth about
the Antichrist
, by Kim Riddlebarger
Pufendorf On Civil Religion and the Church as a Mere Association
Review of T
rojan Horse: Natural Rights and America’s Founding,
by Ruben Alvarado
Federalism
By
federal
we are interested in the bottom-up, representational and law-based ideas of government
that were associated with the Conciliarist Movement, and taken up by latter opponents of state
absolutism
Ruben Alvarado
Fountainhead of Liberalism
(Review of
Fountainhead of Federalism
by Charles S. McCoy and J.
Wayne Baker
George Buchanan
De Juri Regni Apud Scotos —
Title and Preface
—
Introduction by Charles Flinn Arrowood
—
Text
From of the THE POWERS OF THE CROWN IN SCOTLAND by George Buchanan, translated by Charles Flinn
Arrowood, notes and Introductory Essay by Charles Flinn Arrowood, Copyright © 1949 by the Board of Regents of
the University of Texas.
This book is being made available on the internet by permission of the University of Texas Press. According to
the University of Texas Press, "A search of the Copyright Office in Washington, DC has determined that no
renewal application was completed. Apparently, the book is now in public domain." 25 May 1999.
Original page numbers are enclosed in [brackets] for those who wish to cite the work
Robert Macfarlan translation
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Via Moderna
and
federal perspectives
Perspectives on
Christianity &
culture without the
philosophical
ideologies
The intellectual tradition
that the Middle Ages took
over from the Church of
late antiquity was one of
an intellectual synthesis
between Christian doctrine
and pagan cosmological ideas, mainly viewed in a
neoplatonic perspective. The high Middle Ages
rebuilt this pagan/Christian synthesis by a more
direct appropriation of Greek philosophy, this time
from Aristotle. This began the framework (
via
antiqua
) for theology, for both the Roman Catholic
Thomists and the Protestant Scholastics from the
major Reformers onwards. There was, however, a
medieval critique of this synthesis from a Christian
perspective (
via moderna
), and eventually a Modern
critique from a secularizing perspective. The
Via
Moderna
page tries to find a distinction between
the medieval rejection of pagan elements that
entered Christianity and the modern critique of the
synthesis, which is more aimed at removing the
Christian elements that remained. It is an attempt
to avoid the prejudices of modern philosophy as well
as the earlier pagan-christian synthesis of the
Via
Antiqua
, while also avoiding the
conundrums of
presuppsitional foundationalism
; and to distinguish
the
priority of the moral over the epistemological
from the construction of epistemology itself.
“Theology is not a science in the sense that
physics is a science. Theology may present its
postulates in a systematic and logical form, but
in the final analysis it rests on faith and
persuasion. The great thirteenth-century
scholastics all knew this. None the less, and
doubtless for valid historical reasons, scholastic
theology gradually was absorbed into becoming
part of an organized system of studying and
teaching which was more suited to promoting
the ends of ecclesiastical bureaucracy or the
administration of ecclesiastical law than to
inducing in mankind the motivation and
behavior that would presumably cure their souls
for this life and lead them to salvation in the
next.”
“It was the very great intellectual and historical
contribution of fourteenth-century nominalism
to prove by the very same methods within the
self-same establishment of universities and
religious orders that not only the methodology
but also the metaphysical content of the
predecessor’s thought was irrelevant for the
basic goals of the Christian religion, salvation
and life according to the Gospels.” Charles
Trinkaus,
In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity
and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought
(University of Notre Dame Press, 1970, 1995)
pp. 556-557.
Via Moderna
John Knox on Rebellion Against Evil Authority
Thomas Reid, Foundationalism, and
Presuppositionalism
The Glover Thesis on the Origins of Modernity
Roman Catholic
Logos
Speculation: A New
Scholastic Synthesis?
The Origins of Freemasonry and Occult Practices
in Relation to Reformation Thought
Three Theories of Power and Bits of Others
(Review of
Authority in the Christian Life
by
Jean-Marc Berthoud)
The Fatal Flaws of the Thomist Greek – Christian
Philosophical Synthesis, Review of Bernie van der
Walt, T
homas Aquinas and the Neo-Thomist
Tradition: A Christian-Philosophical Assessment
Review of
Resistance to Tyrants: Romans 13 and
the Christian Duty to Oppose Wicked Rulers
, by
Gordan Runyan
Review of
The Establishment and Limits of Civil
Government: An Exposition of Romans 13:1-7
by
James M. Willson
Review of
Patterns in History: A Christian
Perspective on Historical Thought
, by David
Bebbington
Review of
Natural Rights Theories: Their origin
and development
by Richard Tuck
Natural Law and Natural Rights Before Liberalism
- Two books by Francis Oakley
The Manent Thesis That Natural Rights Political
Theories Were Created Against Christianity
No Dispensationalism Before Darby
, Review of
Dispensationalism Before Darby
by William C.
Watson
An Overview of Millennial Systems, with a review
of
The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth about
the Antichrist
, by Kim Riddlebarger
Pufendorf On Civil Religion and the Church as a
Mere Association
Review of T
rojan Horse: Natural Rights and
America’s Founding,
by Ruben Alvarado
Federalism
By
federal
we are interested in the bottom-up,
representational and law-based ideas of government
that were associated with the Conciliarist
Movement, and taken up by latter opponents of
state absolutism
Ruben Alvarado
Fountainhead of Liberalism
(Review of
Fountainhead of Federalism
by Charles S. McCoy
and J. Wayne Baker
George Buchanan
De Juri Regni Apud Scotos —
Title and Preface
—
Introduction by Charles Flinn Arrowood
—
Text
From of the THE POWERS OF THE CROWN IN SCOTLAND by George Buchanan,
translated by Charles Flinn Arrowood, notes and Introductory Essay by Charles Flinn
Arrowood, Copyright © 1949 by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas.
This book is being made available on the internet by permission of the University of
Texas Press. According to the University of Texas Press, "A search of the Copyright
Office in Washington, DC has determined that no renewal application was completed.
Apparently, the book is now in public domain." 25 May 1999.
Original page numbers are enclosed in [brackets] for those who wish to cite the work
Robert Macfarlan translation
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