ABSTRACT
Grigor Govriguian and Matteos had a double strategy. First, they wanted to show that Christianity withstood what they called objections/questions of the Taciks by "rational" argumentation. Knowledge of both Christianity and Islam was the "arsenal," and rational arguments the weapons. Next, they wanted to instruct the public in the correct doctrines of their own superior faith. Grigor, rather, Saint Grigor Tatewaci was born around 1330 in Vayoc' Jor in southern Armenia, and studied under Yovhan Orotneci at the Monastery of Alberc' or Glajor in his home province. Grigor was a prolific writer, theologian, philosopher, administrator, church official, poet, musician, painter, and an outspoken defender of the Armenian apostolic faith. As a philosopher, Grigor was the last of six late-medieval Aristotelians who were identified as Armenian Nominalists. Even though Grigor's rationalism stopped at the limits of faith, his epistemology laid the basis for his polemical arguments.
