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It's a useful term and spot-on.  It describes a lot of the people I know.  Actually, it's pretty generous to many of them.  I have a lot of family members who just start and end with the faith part and never even seek the intelligence backfill.  I guess to tie this into my gripe about clergy, I would say the primary reason for this faith (in tandem with reward/punishment aversion) is that they base it on the argument from authority.  The pastor studied all this and understands it better than me, so I don't need to worry about it, right?

It's good to know the terms. Having the faith come first, and using reason to support it, is certainly a normal situation for Christians.

It's not sufficient to define someone as a Scholastic, however. Scholastics were a particular kind of theologian with a particular kind of training. Merely having the faith come before the intellect is not sufficient to be defined as a Scholastic. 

If your pastor was a Catholic who engaged you in dialectic using strict Aristotelian logic, then he might well have been a Scholastic. Otherwise, not.

Sorry, reading back I realize that I was imprecise.  The term I was referring to as spot on (at least based on the linked article) was specifically "Fides quaerens intellectum", not "Scholastic".  I want to read more on both, though, as they are concepts I admit I am not deeply knowledgeable of and do not want to use incorrectly.  Thanks for pointing out that distinction on Scholastics - that's helpful.