The Renaissance Mind
The new Renaissance world view owed much to two innovative thinkers and writers: St Thomas Aquinas and Petrarch.
St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) who developed the concept of natural theology: theology based on reason and experience. He brought Christian doctrine and Aristotelian logic into a syncretic intellectual system. By inquiring into the nature of nature he laid the foundations of the scientific revolution. But remember, he was not suggesting that nature was anything else but created by God.