 During the Middle Ages, efforts to reconcile Christian doctrine with Aristotelian logic – newly reintroduced into European thought via the translation of Aristotle’s corpus from Greek and Arabic – gave rise to a family of positions that Sheila Delany groups together under the label “skeptical fideism.” By distinguishing the revealed truths of the Christian religion, which can be accepted only via what they posited as a distinct faculty of faith, from the knowledge-claims to which the dialectical method is relevant, thirteenth-century thinkers like Boetius of Dacia and his colleague Siger de Brabant sought a theo-philosophico rapprochement (Delany, 13–17). Pragmatically, this appeal to faith was in the service less of safeguarding Christian faith than of loosening ecclesiastical constraints on philosophy. Summarizing these developments, Delany writes: