I had learned from history books that the Renaissance period was referred to a period of light and humancentrism, which succeeded the Medieval ages, a period of God-centrism, also called the dark ages. I questioned why the period of God-centrism had been called the dark ages, and why Luther’s reformation had taken place. Further, if the Renaissance people had been human-centric, whether they had lived without God, or whether they had not needed Jesus. When I had studied a history for God’s glory, He has guided me to a best way spiritually and physically, and most of all let me gain an answer to my academic questions; the following lecture is based on the answer. As a Western history professor, I kept studying about Erasmus and about Renaissance humanism and received a Ph.D. (1995). I also published a book titled, Synthetic Interpretation on the Renaissance Humanism -focusing on Erasmus-like Humanists’ Religious Thoughts (Hye-An, 2011: Korean Version). This article has revised and arranged a paper to lecture at the U. S. Mid-West UBF Staff meeting, in September of 2016.

Abstract
Preface.
The Advent of the Renaissance and theRenaissance Humanism.
    First, the origin of the term Renaissance.
    Second, the origin of the term humanist.
    Third, the origin of the term humanism.
The backgrounds of the Renaissance and theRenaissance humanism.
    First, political, social, economic, and culturalbackgrounds.
    Second, the growth of the lay class wasaccompanied with a remarkable growth of lay piety.
    Third, doctrinal diversity was developed fromthe later Medieval period through the fifteenthcenturies. Various factors contributed to thisdevelopment.
Fourth, a phenomenon in the absence of themagisterium.
Conclusion.
References

• Chan-moon Park(WAIS)