modernists are works on systematic theology, they want to be thought of as Catholic scholasticism and Western imports. It appears that the Modernists are not quite clearly understand what the word “scholasticism” and explicitly ascribed to him the negative content. This term in antiquity signified the training, education, scholarship, and then – thinking style and method of presentation, when the material is located in a certain system and is considered by the analysis.
There were Greek scholasticism, for example, “Categories” of Aristotle, as well as Chinese, Indian, Muslim, etc. As scholasticism in Christian theology, she appeared in Byzantium in the ranks of imitators and commentators patristic writings. Elements of scholasticism can be found in the main product of St. John of Damascus “Exact Exposition of the Orthodox faith, which was several times translated from Greek into Latin and served as a source of” Amounts theology of Thomas Aquinas – the top of Western theology. The modernists accuse orthodox theologians in that they sometimes use the collected material in the West. But here again a misunderstanding.
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