What it is the scholastic theology and who are the fools who despise?
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Excellent article. The only relief that I allow myself humbly to do is related to a user, in my opinion, too casual of the term 'Renaissance paganism', since the Renaissance, in his best exponents, I think of a Ficino (1433-1499), but also to a Nicola Cusano (1401-1464) and a Agostino Steuco (1497/8-1548), both bishops, also he had a profoundly Christian soul, whose goal was reinterpreted in the light of Christianity, the Greek philosophical tradition to which, after the Council of Florence and the influx into Europe of the Greek manuscripts of the great classical philosophers and the Neoplatonists, it was now possible to directly access, without the filter of the preceding Arabic or Latin translations. I personally think that if the Church had been able to operate on humanism that work of harmonization with Catholicism that St. Thomas was able to take on the classical tradition (Aristotle, Plato) and Neoplatonic (ii blamed del Liber reasons, that has so much weight in the Summa), humanism would not be prevailed hostile tendency to the doctrine of the Church, present in some of the members appointed, and which paved the way for the modern world