8 sentences with “scholastic”

Many of Europe's leading scholars remained members of the Church, benefiting from both its scholastic and humanistic educational backgrounds.

Although not formally educated in the scholastic tradition, Hildegard was nevertheless the author of several works of theological interpretation and medicine.

Even the Church, which continued to educate its priests in the older scholastic tradition, welcomed the addition of humanistic forms of education in some respects.

In the 16th century, the study of the classics became an essential part of the elite's own education, joining the medieval scholastic traditions (or becoming obsolete) in schools and universities.

Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536): Erasmus was a surprisingly erudite priest who benefited from both the traditional scholastic education of the late medieval church and the new humanistic style that emerged from the Renaissance.

In the seminaries all priests would acquire a solid scholastic education (and, soon, most seminaries also included a humanistic education), fluency in Latin, and a thorough knowledge of the Bible and the writings of major Christian thinkers.

Martin Luther received both a scholastic and a humanistic education, eventually becoming a professor at the small university in the Holy Roman city of Wittenberg. There, far from the centres of spiritual and secular power, he contemplated the Bible, the Church and his own spiritual salvation.

Some teachers in the scholastic tradition became minor intellectual celebrities, most famously Peter Abelard (1079 - 1142), a brilliant teacher and polemicist in Paris who gave extensive lectures exploring both the pros and cons of various important questions that had been considered by the Church Fathers.