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If you type Scholasticism in the green ask box above, you will get more than you ever wanted to know. The confusion is mostly in that it started out roughly as more emphasis on scientific inquiry into things like spirituality and religion, instead of taking it so much on faith. But late Scholasticism began again to separate faith and science. That was because of those who thought that reason was pushing out faith, and it probably was, and they wanted to get more back to faith and belief, as if faith was something different and not reasonable.

I would say that faith comes from seeing that something works. Like in science, it comes from testing. Seeing is believing. Belief was probably never meant to be credulity or naive belief. The only faith needed is enough to look.

When science gets the bit between its teeth, some lower level scientists, lab technicians and the general public get to thinking that science is a body of facts and they don't believe anything else. Actually the scientific method is to test your beliefs, whether about science or religion.

Open mindedness, then, is important in science and religion, but who knew. Science tends to look at smaller and smaller pieces of reality, until reality can become very distorted from a narrow view, and the popular view off science becomes more and more narrow. Spirituality looks at big issues, like Social Science, Philosophy, Psychology and Political Science, to name a few. You wouldn't think that would cause such a division. On higher levels in any field, it doesn't. The greatest scientist, and the greatest in all fields, tend to be at least spiritual and/or intuitive.

Intuition implies inspiration, revelation and things like that, a very essential and crucial factor in scientific discoveries or discoveries in any field. Scholasticism was to bring in more balance. That balance floats with emphasis toward or away from narrower thinking. Scholasticism was the move toward more reason than before it, although it might be said that Scholasticism stemmed from Greece, Aristotle, Socrates and the rest. Actually that is because that is pretty much the time from which we have much historical knowledge. Confused yet? We always used reason and intuition. Not so much today, even though science is virtually discovering again that the intuition is much more powerful and most of our thinking is done below our awareness. Aristotle said that we are not reasoning, if we don't use intuition. So you see, we have come around full cycle again.

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