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Article: God and Reason in the Middle Ages.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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God and Reason in the Middle Ages. Edward Grant. Cambridge University Press. (pounds sterling)45.00 (US$64.95). 397 pages. ISBN 0-521-80279-2. The author accepts the dictum that Western European civilisation originated during the Middle Ages and that in this origin, the role of reason alongside faith was vital. His question is a straight-forward one: how did the Europeans' use of reason differ from earlier civilisations? To answer this he examines intellectual life 'as it developed within the universities'. `Rationalists' of the eighteenth century described medieval life as one of 'faith' but as Mr Grant argues, 'medieval university scholars and teachers ... placed a ...
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