The Contact of Science and Theology

Abstract

Medieval philosophy did not always have die tools by which the question of the scientific nature of theology could be asked. We can date the question with relative specificity: T he question cannot be asked before about the year 1156.’ For the question of science is a question raised in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics and this text does not make its appearance in the Latin West until sometime around that year. However, in terms of its appearance in philosophical and theological texts, let alone in terms of. commentaries of it, Posterior Analytics does not become an influential text until the early thirteenth century. It is only at that point, then, that the very question “Is Theolog? a Science?” can be asked.