This was a radical new position for the mind of the Middle Ages. The intimate connection between God and nature, and God and reason, had finally, decisively been severed.14 The prospect seemed both exhilarating and nerve-racking. Ockham, however, was unworried. We’ll let the Church worry about matters above, he told his followers. Let’s concentrate on understanding the world down here. Accordingly, there was a sudden new burst of interest in natural philosophy and science in Europe’s universities in the 1300s.
