SCHOLASTIC

a person overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching. —PDC 2 Approved Glossary

a philosopher and theologian (one who is skilled or trained in the study of religion and religious beliefs) of the Middle Ages. See also Middle Ages in this glossary.one of the medieval schoolmen (writers that dealt with the methods of scholasticism). Scholasticism is the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators. Hampered by the church's insistence that their results be reconcilable with Christian doctrine, the schoolmen were often reduced to hairsplitting quibbles over methodology and terminology.

a person overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.those who narrowly adhere to traditional teachings, doctrines or methods.