Antedating of "Scholasticism"

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This may be original with me but I use the term "scholasticism" when I
describe academic articles which depend for their publishability  not on
whether their authors have any original ideas but if they merely quote the
literature in order to get their articles into print in academic journals.

I use the term in opposition to "scholarship" which is another thing
entirely.

Page Stephens

> [Original Message]
> From: Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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> Date: 7/26/2006 10:15:10 PM
> Subject: [ADS-L] Antedating of "Scholasticism"
>
> scholasticism (OED 1756-82)
>
> 1706 Brocklesby, Richard. _An explication of the Gospel-theism and the
> divinity of the Christian religion_ preface (Eighteenth Century
> Collections Online)  With this Idea of the Holy Ghost, _An Idea of the
> Nature of the Holy Scriptures_ is connex'd, which demonstrateth, that they
> are Aliens from Scholasticism, and consequently our Theology of the
> Godhead and the Persons thereof ought to be of another kind and Character
> than Scholastic.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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