the more critical perspective of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries rather than the more optimistic approach of the thirteenth-century Dominicans and their views on the relationship of revelation and reason. Where the Thomistic line of thought continues into the Reformation—for example, in the writings of Vermigli, Zanchi, and, to a certain extent, Keckermann—it is modified by a more negative assessment of the powers of reason and by a sense of diastasis between the ways of God and the ways of