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Title: Reason and Revelation in Middle Ages by Etienne Gilson ISBN: 0-684-71786-7 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $4.95

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Summary: Brilliant overview of medieval philosophy
Comment: This book is a collection of three lectures delivered at UVA in 1937. Gilson brilliantly portrays three aspects of medieval philosophy:

1.The Primacy of Faith 2.The Primacy of Reason 3.The Harmony of Reason and Revelation

He takes the reader through about six or seven major thinkers along the way including Clement, Tertullian, Averroes and Aquinas to show the complexity of thought that abounded in the middle ages. This runs contrary to popular opinion, which tends to look at the 16th century as the first time people had reasonable thoughts as they unshackled themselves from the chains of religious superstition. This is not the case, as Gilson explains in the first few pages of this book.

While he would not deny the importance of new ideas that came out of the Renaissance, he would say that most of them had their genesis in the medieval (and earlier) era.