Western Civilizations

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1 . How the Rediscovery of the Works of Aristotle Challenged the Church . Rediscovery of the Works of Aristotle challenged the Church in several ways as it triggered the Scientific Renaissance . This was characterized by many inventions and discoveries . It is the discoveries that challenged the Church then and continue to do even today . Some of these discoveries caused people to start doubting what the church and Christianity beliefs had made them to believe . The developments in the study of

the universe especially brought contradictions in what was discovered and what the Church Taught . An example is that while it was discovered that the sun did not move , the Bible which was very fundamental to the Church had verses that implied that the Sun moved Developments in Astronomy a result of the rediscovery of the works of Aristotle are hence an example of its challenge to the Church (Kretzmann Stump , 2001

What Scholasticism is and how it attempted to Reconcile Faith with Reason

Scholasticism is a method of teaching where learners are encouraged to reason dialectically . This tool for learning enables the learners to learn how to argue with those holding beliefs and ideas that are different from theirs hence are able to persuade them to join them (Alvarez , 1971 . The sole objective of Scholasticism was to resolve ideas that were contradicting or conflicting . This is because even though the ideas and beliefs were different , they shared some common principles which brought...