http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/11/where-do-people-get-this/ Unity in charity, diversity in truth Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:49:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/11/where-do-people-get-this/comment-page-1/#comment-275262 Kiran Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:17:25 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/11/where-do-people-get-this/#comment-275262 Yep. You are perfectly right. There was a great deal of academic freedom in the Middle Ages, nor did people find it necessary (as appropriate to a culture which could assume a shared faith), for belief that Jesus Christ was God to be made explicit. Quite a lot of medieval works switch easily between speaking of the deity of Timaeus, God as creator, and Jesus Christ for instance. Sabellianism was the greater danger, as well as of paganism and tritheism in the Middle Ages, the former being mostly a heresy of intellectuals, and the latter that of the lower classes. (There were exceptions of course, such as Amalric of Bene) Yep. You are perfectly right. There was a great deal of academic freedom in the Middle Ages, nor did people find it necessary (as appropriate to a culture which could assume a shared faith), for belief that Jesus Christ was God to be made explicit. Quite a lot of medieval works switch easily between speaking of the deity of Timaeus, God as creator, and Jesus Christ for instance. Sabellianism was the greater danger, as well as of paganism and tritheism in the Middle Ages, the former being mostly a heresy of intellectuals, and the latter that of the lower classes. (There were exceptions of course, such as Amalric of Bene)

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