Humanists

Among humanists he enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists".

While Secular Coalition for America is linked to many secular humanistic organizations and many secular humanists support it, as with the Secular Society, some non-humanists support it.

Anyone who has gone beyond dipping their toes into this particular pond (which in our city includes the Humanists these days), soon realises that this sort of activity is not primarily about looking for similarities amongst different faiths.

On the other side are liberal progressives and secular humanists who want more equality, more fairness, more human rights and more opportunity for everyone.

There are Christians; there are even traditional worshippers, as well as, humanists.

It could have been an intriguing tale but for that peculiar twist though I suspect that both films would be embraced by NAMBLA and trans-humanists as ground breaking.

A large percentage of members (as many as half or more) of Unitarian Universalist congregations have identified themselves as humanists when surveys have been conducted.

As customary in those days for humanists, he Latinized his name, to Conradus Celtis.

But humanists did not go so far as to promote the extra glory of deliberately aiming to establish a new state, in defiance of traditions and laws.

He exchanged scholarly letters with a circle of Swiss humanists and began to study the writings of Erasmus.

He often depicted witches, also a local interest: Strasbourg's humanists studied witchcraft and its bishop was charged with ferreting out witches.

Here at the Cistercian Abbey of St Bernard at Aduard near Groningen and at 's-Heerenbergh near Emmerich in the south-east he was at the centre of a group of scholars and humanists with whom he kept up a lively exchange of letters.

He was a member of the Advisory Council of the British Humanist Association and President of Cardiff Humanists until his death.

His connection with humanists was a decisive factor as several canons were sympathetic to Erasmian reform.

Humanists, then, live in a mysterious, exciting and intellectually expanding world, which, once glimpsed, makes the old worlds of the religions seem fake-cosy and stale..

In this period the presence of Calabrian humanists or refugees from Constantinople was fundamental.

It was Reuchlin who suggested Philipp change his surname from "Schwartzerdt" (literally "black earth"), into the Greek equivalent "Melanchthon" (Μελάγχθων), a custom which was usual among humanists of that time.

It was written around 1597, largely under the inspiration of an elite circle of literate Florentine humanists who gathered as the " Camerata de' Bardi ".

Local organizations work to raise the profile of secularism in their communities and tend to include secularists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, and humanists under their organizational umbrella.

The growing reform movement, led by humanists such as Erasmus and Thomas More, began, however, to change religious attitudes.