Sanctification, therefore, must be understood as being both definitive and progressive. In its definitive sense, it means that work of the Spirit whereby He causes us to die to sin, to be raised with Christ, and to be made new creatures. In its progressive sense, it must be understood as that work of the Spirit whereby He continually renews and transforms us into the likeness of Christ, enabling us to keep on growing in grace and to keep on perfecting our holiness.
Anthony Hoekema

Scholasticism

Scholasticism

SCHOLASTICISM

DEFINITION The attempt to rationalize in order to buttress faith by reason. This is the term given to the great Roman Catholic thinkers of around the 13th century, the greatest of which was St. Thomas Aquinas. In scholasticism, theology was treated from a philosophical rather than a Biblical point of view. The data of revelation was organized systematically, using Aristotlian deductive logic; Biblical truth was harmonized with the newly discovered philosophy of Aristotle.

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