The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 6). Religion creates its own Frankenstein monster. The critical search via reason for universal laws of nature. Dr. Ray Scott Percival In his book The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark conjectures that it was the Christian emphasis on a law-like structure to the world…
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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 5) James I: Witness of, and channel for the Dawn Ages. Dr. Ray Scott Percival St. Augustine’s optimistic attitude to progress illustrates the current view among historians that although, stained in dogmatism and oppression, the so-called dark ages were not that dark.(Grant 2004, Hannan…
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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 4) James I’s Intellectual inheritance. Aristotle and Plato via St. Augustine and Boethius. Dr. Ray Scott Percival Medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish theologians held the works of Aristotle and Plato in awe. However, magnificent works as they were, they also created paradoxes with the…
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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 3) The King who wrestled with his Lords and Philosophy. Dr. Ray Scott Percival James I was a formidable man, both physically and intellectually: he would with one blow dispatch you, and then compose a moving poetic obituary, and play a fitting dirge at…
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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 2). Pioneer and Puppet of Ideology. Dr. Ray Scott Percival Leaders introduce novel concepts to their society, but those must function within the perspective moulded by earlier scholars. James I, cultivated at the court of Henry IV and V in European-style rule and…
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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part I). James I and the inaugural steps toward the Scottish Renaissance. Dr. Ray Scott Percival. Behind the clashing of swords and the blood-drenched fields of war, the intrigues, conspiracies, seizures of power and the rise and fall of empires, lies another deeper story: the…
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