 Where Ibn Rushd’s influence is perhaps even more important, but less easy to pin down, concerns the relationship between philosophy and religion (Klima 1998, Marenbon 2007, Normore 1995). The most distinctive feature of the “Averroists” is their inclination to pursue philosophical arguments to their logical conclusion, regardless of Church doctrine. To be sure, this has close affinities with Ibn Rushd’s insistence that philosophy should inform religious study (see §6.2), but in the censorious context of premodern Christianity such an approach was especially perilous. Figures like Siger of Brabant would stake out boldly heterodox-looking claims, only to backtrack and insist that they were merely describing what pure philosophical reason would show, not defending these views as true. Often they would later disavow even their earlier strictly philosophical claims. The autonomy of reason, against the claims of religion, was not a principle that could be easily defended at this time.