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The proposal to give us piety without the niceties of dogmatic development and debate must also fail inasmuch as it falsely bifurcates the life of faith into things of the heart and things of the head—as if the Christian intellect cannot be faithful or, to borrow from Augustine, faith ought not to go in search of understanding. The severing of piety from the debates of the era is also untrue to the historical case. The authors of scholastic theological systems were frequently persons of considerable piety and, more important, for the historical record, also wrote works intended to develop and support piety.