How did Christian humanists use the study of the classics to understand the divine nature of God? Who were some of the key figures in the movement? What was the relationship to scholasticism?

Christian humanist - "Christian humanists combined the the philosophical side of Christianity with the classic principles of humanism."

As, in the beginning after the discovery of many ancient Latin and Greek texts in the Europe, they were studied and research was carried out on them, by the scholars and priests. As it is now believed that the christian humanism developed more from the Renaissance humanism and Christian scholasticism. Both of them started after the recovery of the Greek and Latin texts in Europe.

As, after the 15th century the christian humanism was actually structured and then was developed by the efforts of Jakob Wimpfeling, John Colet, and Thomas More.

Explanation:

Scholasticism: A Latin world scholasticus meaning,"that [which] belongs to the school", a learning method which was based on studying in an academy or ancient schools of thoughts.

There was a time when the scholars and priest were in search to find answers to unsolved questions. People were considered lost and for that philosophical analyses of the ideas of church, was done and mostly by studying the work of Aristotle and his commentators. After which the Renaissance humanism replaced it.

The key figures?

Jakob Wimpfeling, John Colet, Thomas More,

And in the northern region we have,

Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples Erasmus,

As, all of them worked for the humanist ideas and they were very cautions of any corruption in the church.

capabilities to have self confidence. achieve self cultivation, to write weel, to speak well, to live well. Hormer, Demosthenes, platos are figures; in contrast to scholastic philosophers, who used greek philosophy.