Humanism Flashcards
1
Q
Who was the most famous of all Christian Humanists?
A
Erasmus
2
Q
What did Erasmus survey?
A
European culture in hopes for the future
3
Q
Who can be described as Humanist?
A
Both Erasmus and Luther
4
Q
What did they both share an excitement for?
A
The Bible
5
Q
What did they use?
A
Scholarship
6
Q
What did they use scholarship to uncover?
A
The beliefs and the devotions of the early church
7
Q
Who was humanist? (4)
A
- Erasmus
- Luther
- Thomas More
- Zwingli
8
Q
What were they often incapable of doing?
A
Agreeing with each other
9
Q
What has Christian Humanism been argued to be?
A
The intellectual aspect of the Renaissance
10
Q
What were Humanists said to have wrestled problems with? Name four.
A
- conflicting cultures
- religious division
- the encounter between Islam and Christianity
- political corruption
- war
- disease
- poverty
11
Q
What centuries was this prominent?
A
15th and 16th centuries
