The main conflict in the eleventh century is between those who see theology as little more than Bible commentary and those who feel that rational analysis and argument was needed. The first group argued that God was such a mystery, so intellectually inaccessible, that we could hope to talk about him at all only in the symbolic language he himself had graciously given us for that purpose. Nor could we expect to get beyond that …showed first 75 words of 2109 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2109 total…ardpeter.htm?terms=Peter+Abelard - Abelard Glossary of beliefs and Philophies http://classiclit.about.com/cs/abelardpeter/index.htm- About Abelard http://historymedren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.aquinasonline.com/ - Biography of Aquinas http://historymedren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.knuten.liu.se/%7Ebjoch509/philosophers/aqu.html - Aquinas Beliefs Neoplatonic Philosophies of Eleventh Century Europe Prof. William Flinter Medieval History 5:30 - 8:30 T 4-8-03