ed on like it was. The humanists based their form of Christianity strictly on the direct meaning of the Bible and what the church fathers wrote. One thing that the humanists stressed was that the historical narrative was cyclic, with recurring events such as times of peace to times of war. The Christians thought that history was the unfolding of G-d's will, which is like a story with a beginning, middle and an end. The cyclic idea was a pagan idea originating mainly from Aristotle, Polybius, and Cicero. Another idea of the humanists was that the human could dominate his environment, thus becoming a magus, or magician. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola said that man could choose his own destiny and shape his own life. This idea of domina

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