With the Rambam and Saadia Gaon, Aristotle gained prominence. [Ibn Gavirol was Platonic]. But the problem with Aristotle was that there is no "form" of the fire that gets into the head to make us know what "hot" is. And as Kelley Ross pointed out, DNA  became understood as a way for plants to grow into their final form a different from the forms of Aristotle. So some new thinking became needed to understand Torah in the light of more modern questions. The difficulties of a reconciliation between Reason and Faith  need a different approach. One might just go back to Plato  and Neo-Plato [Plotinus].