id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4417 Christian humanism - Wikipedia .html text/html 3170 442 53 Christian humanism originated towards the end of the 15th century with the early work of figures such as Jakob Wimpfeling, John Colet, and Thomas More and would go on to dominate much of the thought in the first half of the 16th century with the emergence of widely influential Renaissance and humanistic intellectual figures like Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and especially Erasmus, who would become the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance.[7] These scholars committed much of their intellectual work to reforming the church and reviving spiritual life through humanist education, and were highly critical of the corruption they saw in the Church and ecclesiastical life. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4417.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4417.txt