rationally explained. The other school of thought, a final development within the scholastic tradition, was nominalism. This school taught that human reason was insufficient to explain revelation. Its chief proponent was William of Ockham (1300–1347), who held that “God eluded the theologians, and men deceived themselves if they thought otherwise.”59 The Protestant Reformers seized this line of reasoning and used it as the basis for their doctrines of sola fide (by faith alone) and sola scriptura