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Augustine's Integration
- Augustine integrated Aristotelian science, Platonic spirituality, and Christian narrative.
- These combined into nomological, normative, and narrative orders connecting self, others, and world.
Shift in Psychotechnology of Reading
- A shift in psychotechnology from participatory recitation to silent consumption changed how knowledge was understood.
- Knowledge became about internal coherence rather than transformative conformity to the world.
Aquinas's Two Worlds
- Aquinas reconfigured the two-worlds mythology into two real worlds: natural (reason) and supernatural (faith).
- This separation, while initially solving a problem, risked separating love from reason and spirituality from science.