In Erika Rummel's The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation, we read this from Melanchthon, who is discussing the nature of education, and the role of humane studies:

"If the humanities have not been taught, what kind of theologians will we create?"  Melanchton then says: "but I know how much to attribute to the humanities, lest anyone think I am detracting anything from the Holy Spirit here" (Rummel, 144).

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