John Prideaux, bishop of Worcester, rector of Exeter College, and vice-chancellor of Oxford University, was the author of several works on rhetoric and logic. He is best known, however, as an educator working within the scholastic tradition of Thomas Aquinas as it was being revitalized in the early to mid seventeenth century. Prideaux can be linked to the theories of the continental logicians Bartholomew Keckermann and Johann-Heinrich Alsted, who charted a course between the ideas of Pierre de La Ramée (known as Petrus Ramus) and scholasticism in an attempt to combat the Ramist tendency towards constructing dichotomies. Prideaux, like Keckermann, attempted to construct a method for reasoning based upon dividing and subdividing a subject into many parts--in Prideaux's case, seven parts--while still remaining distanced from the strict logical boundaries imposed by the Peripatetics (or Aristotelians). Prideaux's motive was, no doubt, to find a compromise between a...