Monday, August 12, 2013

The Middle Ages And Christianized



Prompt#3

 In the Middle Ages chapter,  St. Augustine definitely kept God  in his mind as the creator of the world out of nothing.   He believed that no man had the right to criticize the Lord.   He also thought that  everyone was at his mercy when it came to God.   St. Augustine thought  that God has two groups, one with saved people and one with the damned.    He had to wait for history to occur to see any change. Since Augustine has come up with this  information Plato is not in much of the Godly information shared by Augustine.    Aquinas had Christianized Aristotle just like St. Augustine had Christianized Plato.    They all had to stop thinking that they would never be considered as a threat to the Christian principles.   With  Aquinas’ thoughts, he tried to compare  Aristotle’s  philosophy  with Christianity.   He had came up with the combination between knowledge  and faith.   He believed that people could easily live with the thoughts of Philosophy and the truths of the bible for Christianity without any problems or confusion.   He thought that you could easily live with many different theological truths ; he had a belief that you could get to heaven by two ways, faith and believing in Christ or  having common sense and reasoning.   Aristotle never really knew about the Christian Revelation so he never became familiar with the bible or even believe in it.   These philosophers became more reasonable when they  put their thoughts together about simple reasoning and Christianity.   They gave everyone and anyone who wanted to learn about philosophy  a chance to separate religious views from a different thought process.    They never really say that Christianity was the cause of one thing and then they made a reason of why Christianity was the cause.   Instead they separate the two different  subjects so there is no way to get either one of these mixed up into one subject.    There is proof that there have been times where God has shown himself through the many different ways of reasoning and  through  Christianity  and the bible.

 

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