Evidence for the existence of God

[Parokki]

Nth said:

Parokki said:
My favorite instance of trying to apply logic to religion was a monk in 11th or 12th century Europe, who used the ancient Greek arts of logic and reason to prove without a shred of doubt that God indeed existed. Apparently he was pretty good as far as medieval thinkers go.

However, the time wasn't quite ready for him, and he was accused of heresy because "only the Bible may be used to justify Bible!" A century earlier he might've been in more serious trouble, but managed to get out of it by renouncing his heresies and burning his books.

I believe that the person you are referring to is Origen Adamantius.

Nah, isn't him. The guy I'm thinking about lived somewhere between the years 1000 and 1250 CE. The whole point of the chapter was to point out how society's reaction to heretics changed a lot during the time period by looking at the stories of three scholars, one from each century, with ideas the Church didn't like. 

I should probably look him up again, and remember this stuff better if I intend to go around spreading it. =/