Scholasticism
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In the English Dictionary scholasticism means the dominant western Christian theological and philosophical school of the Middle Ages, based on the authority of the Latin Fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators. But as we reach an encyclopedia there is a difference, in an religious encyclopedia it tells all about the words, and it's different methods but once you reach a regular encyclopedia it just gives a definition, and branches out from there. There are many different views of this word, and was used by many different people like Aristotle the great philosopher, Plato his pupil, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas, they used this method to find a new way of teaching and the learning's of the Catholic Church. It was deeper understanding of the church, and the belief.
The wonder of where the word came from and its origin, it came from Greek literature the word scholastikos that meant to designate a professional philosopher. As years went on it was no longer used as a Greek word but for Christians use, and as we entered into the 6th century, it was used more often in schools, and the word "scholastic" would come up in the studies, which was traced back from the Greek word, and used in more context, and was studied more into philosophy. Then the method was then used more in schools, and went on until the Middle Ages.
There was a Scholastic Period, it was known as the Patristic Era (a period of historic time), since St...