From faith and reason to fideism : Raymond Lull, Raimundus Sabundus, and Michel de Montaigne -- Nicholas of Cusa and Pythagorean theology -- Giordano Bruno's philosophy of religion -- Coluccio Salutati : hermeneutics of humanity -- Humanism applied to language, logic and religion : Lorenzo Valla -- Georgios Gemistos Plethon : from paganism to Christianity and back -- Marsilio Ficino's philosophical theology -- Giovanni Pico against popular platonism -- Tommaso Campanella : God makes sense in the world -- Francisco Suárez : scholastic and platonic ideas of God -- Epilogue : conflicting truth claims.