Martin Luther The Humanistic Tradition Analysis

In The Humanistic Tradition the author, Gloria Fiero presents Martin Luther as the voice of the religious reform movement against the abuses of the Church of Rome. Martin Luther's revolt against the church was an attempt to put an end to “the misery and wretchedness of Christendom” (Friero, Pg. 475). Hence he insisted that the way to find peace with God was through having heartful faith in God. Thus this idea contradicted some of the corrupt behaviors that the church was practicing such as indulgences. Consequently, Martin Luther’s attempt to reform Catholicism through his work Ninety-Five Theses allowed people to have a new kind of freedom as Martin Luther’s work demonstrated that both religious and political authority were imperfect. In the end, allowing the Scientific Reformation era to spark as people started to think differently and seek out answers.
The Scientific Reformation was a revolution in the way a person perceived the world, in other words, it was an intellectual revolution. This reformation allowed individuals to attempt to understand …show more content…
Turner states in his work Francis Bacon’s Common Notion that “New Organum is a new logic, one that aims to teach and instruct the understanding” (Turner, Pg. 10). In other words, Henry S. Turner agrees with Gloria Fiero’s claim that the Francis Bacon Idols lead to an instructive way of thinking and essentially living. Thus Henry Turner agrees with Francis Bacon's idea that if an individual was to follow the Baconian method he would “destroy the Idols and consequently cleanse his mind of false thinking” (Turner, Pg. 24). Hence Turner argues that by destroying the four classes of idols an individual will have access to reasoning free of prejudice or errors. In the end, Turner states that Francis Bacon idols help prevent “ the human mind (anima) or understanding (intellectus) [become] prey to conjecture, imagination, or stubborn fixation on one or two pieces of hard-won evidence” (Turner,