How Did Protestant Philosophers Engage With Philosophy?

In the early period, there's a dearth of protestant preachers and people who are trained to teach protestant doctrine. So you find a certain kind of justification based on the programme of searching for the truth through scripture itself. For example, zanki makes this point that even just to be able to interpret scripture successfully, right, you need more than just philological skills. You need to master aristol's physics and ethics, writes Zanki. As you go into the latter half of the sixteenth century, i would say, one finds a more integrated approach where, jos firstavile, the study of metaphysics becomes more important. And that's an important