SINCE 1828
scholasticism
noun
scho·las·ti·cism
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Definition of scholasticism
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: a philosophical movement dominant in western Christian civilization from the 9th until the 17th century and combining religious dogma with the mystical and intuitional tradition of patristic philosophy especially of St. Augustine and later with Aristotelianism
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