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Scholastic Divinity

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Divinity subjected to the test of reason and argument, or at least “darkened by the counsel of words.” The Athanasian creed is a favourable specimen of this attempt to reduce the mysteries of religion to “right reason;” and the attempts to reconcile the Mosaic cosmogony with modern geology smack of the same school.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Scent
Sceptic (Greek)
Sceptre
Scheherazade [She-he-ra-zay-de]
Scheltrum
Scheme
Schiedam
Schiites
Schlemihl (Peter)
Scholastic
Scholastic Divinity
Schools
Schoolmaster Abroad (The)
Schoolmen
Schoolmistress (The)
Scian
Science
Science Persecuted
Scienter Nesciens et Sapiente Indoctus
Scio’s Blind Old Bard
Scipio dismissed the Iberian Maid (Paradise Regained, ii.)