The Nature/Grace RGM of The Latin Middle Ages
According to Dooyeweerd, the great sweep of Christianization in the Latin West beginning from St Augustine onwards came under sway of a new synthesis that was torn by the opposing values of Nature and Grace, in a situation where the State backed the Church in prioritizing Grace as dominant over the approved limited valorization of Nature. Through the Renaissance of the twelfth century and also of the fifteenth century and the Reformations (both Protestant and Catholic) of the sixteenth, the Nature under Grace dualism was held in place, only to collapse in the wake of the oncoming next RGM.
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