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A theologian Jiang describes as trying to revise Augustine by combining faith with Aristotelian reason and science.
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Thomas Aquinas
A theologian Jiang describes as trying to revise Augustine by combining faith with Aristotelian reason and science.
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Thomas Aquinas tries to update Catholic thought by combining Augustine's Platonic world with Aristotelian science, logic, and reason, but Jiang says Augustine's cultural grip is too deep for this to succeed.
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"...most famous professors of theology at the University of Paris is Thomas Aquinas. Now, Thomas Aquinas, he's a saint in the Catholic Church. His..."
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"Okay? He's in the air. You breathe. That's the power of culture. The man who will ultimately free Europe from the grasp of Augustine..."
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"...Okay. And so, what happens is that a new theologian named Thomas Aquinas comes and his orthodoxy starts to replace that of Augustine. and..."
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