Fr. Gregory Pine

And so shortly thereafter, that event happened on the feast of St.

Nicholas in 1273, and then he died on the 7th of March in 1274.

So it precipitated the end of his life.

He actually died on the way to the Second Council of Lyon.

I might be muddling a couple of details of the story and just mish-mashing, so my apologies to those in the comm box who have- Could have been the Third Council of Lyon.

There isn't one, but nevertheless.

Yeah, I think, so this is my take.

This idea might be shared by other individuals.

I haven't checked in with them, so I'll just send it across the bow.

I think that, so in the history of theology, at a certain point, like especially in the late 15th, early 16th century, people get really concerned about nitty gritty details.

And we understand why, because if you found yourself in an ambiguous moral situation or in a potentially compromising situation, you want to be able to act with certainty and confidence, especially when you fear for your ever loving immortal soul.

And so,

During that time, especially with kind of contemporary changes in philosophy or the practice of philosophy, there was doubt that we could actually know the things themselves.

And so there became this great reliance on authorities.

So philosophers and theologians began adjudicating claims on the basis of who said

or how vehemently this or that person said.

And so it became this kind of calculus of if you can marshal X number of authorities or Y number of authorities, then you can be certain, then you can be confident.

And it was as part of that conversation that people began to reject scholastic thought.

because it had become kind of decadent and it had become inordinately concerned with pacifying doubts rather than getting to the heart of the matter.

And so St.