Europe, Byzantium, and the "Intellectual Silence" of Rus' Culture / / Donald Ostrowski.

• VerfasserIn: Ostrowski, Donald,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : Arc Humanities Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Beyond Medieval Europe
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book sets out to answer the question of why Eastern Church writers showed no interest in analytical reasoning - the so-called "intellectual silence" of Rus' culture - while Western Church writers, by the time of the Scholastics, routinely incorporated analytical reasoning into their defences of the faith.Donald Ostrowski suggests that Western, post-Enlightenment- trained, analytical scholars often miss the point, not because of an inability to comprehend cultural ideas which seem abstract and ineffable, but because the agenda is different.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Aesthetic Judgment -- 2. Neoplatonism, East and West -- 3. Why Was There an Abelard? -- 4. The Eastern Church's Philosophical Outlook -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Works Cited -- Index