He wanted to reform the church from within, while not destroying the unity of the medieval Christian church. He needed to spread the philosophy of Jesus so that people will have a full understanding of it. ... Erasmus described his humanist beliefs as "the philosophy of Christ." He felt that Christianity should be a guided philosophy. ... He was opposed to the system of dogmatic beliefs and practices of the medieval church. ...

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Medieval scholars designed their own brand of philosophy, interpreting the teachings of Aristotle to agree with their religious beliefs. Their combination of philosophy and theology is known as scholasticism. ... The medieval Christian curriculum focus was on study. The medieval scholars used classical learning for Christian purposes. ... This explains, for instance, the medieval emphasis on philosophy. ...

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He was the most influential of the Christian Humanists and founder of "the philosophy of Christ." He felt that religion should be more of a guiding concept than the dictatorial beliefs and practices of the medieval church. ...

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Medieval Christianity in the West, unlike its eastern counterpart, developed into a single entity. ... In the 11th century, attacks on philosophy by orthodox Islamic thinkers, notably the theologian al Ghazali, had much to do with the eventual decline of rationalist philosophical speculation in the Islamic community. ...

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One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God ; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (i.e., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. There are many ways it might be understood, of course, and perhaps more than one is coherent and even from a Christian point o...

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