Christian humanism (Topical Term)

Work cat: Reflexiones sobre la vigencia del pensamiento humanista cristiano, 2014.

Wikipedia (English), Mar. 11, 2015 (Christian humanism; emphasizes the humanity of Jesus, his social teachings and hs propensity to synthesize human spirituality and materialism; it regards humanist principles like universal human dignity and individual freedom and the primacy of human happiness as essential and principal components of, or at least compatible with, the teachings of Jesus; Christian humanism can be perceived as a philosophical union of Christian ethics and humanist principles)

Cambridge dictionary of Christian theology, 2011: p. 228 (in entry on Humanism: in 1963, L. Spitz argued the case for the deep interdependence of the Reformation and humanism, linking the two explicitly in the term "Christian humanism")

Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation, 1996: v. 2, p. 264-265 (within the wider transmission of Renaissance humanism, one may distinguish a specific current commonly called Christian humanism, which prepared the climate and even set some agendas for the major reform movements; Christian humanists advocated a synthesis of classical, biblical, and patristic learning as the basis for an ambitious renewal of theology, piety, and public morality; Desiderius Erasmus epitomized Christian humanism in both its critical and its constructive purposes)

Here are entered works on a branch of Renaissance humanism that advocated a combination of classical, biblical, and patristic learning as the foundation for renewal of theology, piety, and public morality. Works on the relationship between Christianity and a religious humanism movement within American Unitarianism are entered under Christianity and religious humanism.

Note under Christianity and religious humanism