iterary, and political thought. Pico della Mirandola writes on an important humanistic issue--the dignity of man--and does so from the perspective that man has particular value because he was created by God:
O supreme generosity of God the Father, O highest and most marvelous felicity of man! To him is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills (Mirandola 13).
The Reformation was another example of humanism in a religious context. Martin Luther challenged the authority of the Catholic Church and in so doing created a movement away from the strictness of Catholic teaching and from the idea that communion with God required the intercession of the papacy and the religious structure of a Church. This was a human-cen
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