scholasticise

English

Verb

scholasticise (third-person singular simple present scholasticises, present participle scholasticising, simple past and past participle scholasticised)

1. Alternative form of scholasticize
   • 1955, Gregory Dix, Jew and Greek: a study in the primitive Church, page 57:

     We can, indeed, misunderstand S. Paul's real thought on 'justification', or on any other topic, only if we try to scholasticise (i.e. Hellenise) it as the intellectual exposition of a theological system.

   • 1990, Stanley B. Winters, T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937): Volume 1: Thinker and Politician, page 80:

     Sexual titanism is always weakness. True strength has no need sexually to scholasticise.

   • 1995, John A. Grimes, Ganapati: Song of the Self, page 2:

     The thinkers think, the scholars scholasticise, the devotees worship.

   • 2008, David Michael Thompson, Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century, page 158:

     Even Hegel's work was regarded by Forsyth as another attempt to scholasticise Christianity.