Scholastics wanted to systematize Christian Theology. They were concerned with developing a proactive rather than a reactive approach to theology by anticipating questions and objections to existing doctrines.
Scholastics look at four major issues in their systematic process.
The first is the debate between terminism and realism. Realism to the scholastics is the thought that the universal as such exists not only in thought but that its foundation is in the real nature of sensible things. Terminism rejects a universal human nature and had a profound effect on Luther and the other writers of the Reformation. Logico-critical is the precise definition of specific terms to bring order to inconsistencies. Historico-critical is not looking at specific terms, but a text in its entirety interpreted in its historical context.