subject: Why Modernists hate scholasticism? [print this page] The basic source of scholasticism was Byzantine theology. From the western scholasticism Orthodox theologians took something valuable that has always belonged to the Church, and found a grain of gold carefully separated from the land. That was taken from the scholasticism of the West, is largely a return that the West picked up from the East and transferred into your language. Some analogue of this process can serve as a translation into Arabic of Aristotle, whose works in connection with the loss of the originals were subsequently re-translated from Arabic into Greek and Latin languages. To say that the Orthodox Church was in a Catholic prisoner for several centuries, as outrageous as the claim that the Fathers of the Church, to use the terminology and some of the ideas of Socrates, Aristotle, Plato and Platonists, found in pagan captivity.
