Scholastic Theology is an intellectual way of approaching God, developed in the Western church, and further developed in the Roman Catholic Church. It is a contrast to hesychasm.
"Scholastic theology tried to understand logically the Revelation of God and conform to philosophical methodology. Characteristic of such an approach is the saying of Anselm: 'I believe so as to understand.' "[1]
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- The Difference Between Orthodox Spirituality and Other Traditions by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos
- Scholasticism at Wikipedia
- Anselm of Canterbury at Wikipedia
- Cur Deus homo: to which is added a selection from his letters (1909) by Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
- Anselm's theory of the atonement (1909) by Foley, George Cadwalader, 1851-1935
- A Brief History of Medieval Western Scholastic Theology and How It Crept into the Orthodox Church (PDF, Arabic)
- Salvation between Scholasticism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy (PDF, Arabic)
- The Aim of Scholastic Theology and Its Results from Munkidh min al-Dalal (Confessions, or Deliverance from Error) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE)
- Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) takes a position against Scholasticism
- Scholasticism from the Catholic Encyclopedia