schoolmen in English
noun
1
a teacher in a university in medieval Europe.
Between 1 and 9 December 1916 there followed political manoeuvres of Byzantine complexity over which historians continue to dispute like so many medieval schoolmen .
2
a scholastic theologian.
For so long we have read the Bible in exegetical isolation from the gathered wisdom of the fathers, the schoolmen , and the reformers that we have become vulnerable to all kinds of aberrant ideas with alleged biblical support.
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1. In opposition to the rational approach to divine understanding that the schoolmen adopted, Bernard preached an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary.