The Role Of God In Medieval Philosophy

Contradictory views appear everywhere and have done so for many years, looking back to the time of early philosophers, this is no exception. The main topic of early philosophers, it seems, was the issue proposed by the Cosmological philosophers of how the earth and all the things in it came to be. With this question came many different answers, from water, atoms and beyond, this topic was probed, discussed and argued about. The Medieval Philosophers, just like everyone else, looked deep into this highly opposing topic, and found the answer which many still agree with today, which is the notion that God is the cause of all creation, or in other words, the creation model. The greatness of the Medieval time period and the creation model is held within the proof they found that the earth and all things in it came to be through God, by examining the nature of God, the existence of God and finally the fundamental relationship between faith and reason.
While previous philosophers tried to discover what one thing created everything, Medieval philosophers flawlessly rationalized that God is the cause of all existence by believing that there is reason for the universe. God was the fundamental topic of Medieval philosophy, and as Francis Parker stated in his work The Story of Western Philosophy, “The... idea of God is most fundamentally distinctive of medieval philosophy” (Parker 132). Many previous philosophers asked themselves whether or not there is a world that exists, however Medieval philosophers asked themselves instead why the world exists. By simply switching the question around …show more content…
However, the reasoning put forth by Medieval philosophers made this argument simple. The two most notable proofs of the existence of God came from Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. Augustine based his proof on the basis of the great chain of being in regards to truth and where truth falls on the