My son Stephen brought to my attention a brief review at First Things: The Late Middle Ages Rightly Blamed . This is a review of Brad Gregory's new book, The Unintended Reformation . The subtitle accurately reflects the overall theme, "How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society," but in telling this tragic story Gregory lays a major portion of the blame on what Etienne Gilson long ago described as the "Breakdown of Medieval Philosophy"--thus the title of the First Things review, which directs our attention to the philosophical shortcomings of Scotus and Occam in particular. The review is written by a Protestant, Matthew Milliner, a professor of Art History at Wheaton College. In his review he observes:
Scotus and the Reformation
Scotus and the Reformation
Scotus and the Reformation
My son Stephen brought to my attention a brief review at First Things: The Late Middle Ages Rightly Blamed . This is a review of Brad Gregory's new book, The Unintended Reformation . The subtitle accurately reflects the overall theme, "How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society," but in telling this tragic story Gregory lays a major portion of the blame on what Etienne Gilson long ago described as the "Breakdown of Medieval Philosophy"--thus the title of the First Things review, which directs our attention to the philosophical shortcomings of Scotus and Occam in particular. The review is written by a Protestant, Matthew Milliner, a professor of Art History at Wheaton College. In his review he observes: