The Reformation of the Schools

The mediaeval scholastics were a rationalist when it comes to the state of humans before the fall, and a voluntarist in our situation once corrupted by sin. The protestants reorganization of these institutions showed their allegiance to humanist values. Chairs in hebrew and greek came in, alongside empirical topics like history, geography and anatomy. Meanwhile, the more abstract study of metaphysics was on the wane, and aristotelian natural philosophy was not a high priority either.