Theology as a Science: Aquinas on How Philosophy Transforms Theology
Presented at the Davenant Institute’s 2022 Convivium Irenicum: Philosophy and the Christian
How did theology become systematic? What is the history of the literal interpretation of Scripture? Thanks to the adoption of Aristotelian scientific methods, learned from his philosophical methodology, theologians transformed the allegorical and mystical interpretation of Scripture into literal interpretation.
See how Peter Lombard, Albert the Great, and Aquinas transformed theology into the systematic theology we have today.