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GLENN W. OLSEN
Supper at Emmaus, 10/2016Book Chapter
In E. A. Burtt’s classic formulation, “the central metaphysical contrast between medieval and modern thought, in respect to their conception of man’s relation to his natural environment,” is that: For the dominant trend in medieval thought, man occupied a more significant and determinative place in the universe than the realm of physical nature, while for the main current of modern thought, nature holds a more independent, more determinative, and more permanent place than man … in the Middle Ages on the teleological side: an explanation in terms of the relation of things to human purpose was accounted just as real
