Evaluate whether the Renaissance was influenced primarily by Christian or secular ideals.

Renaissance was primarily influenced by secular ideas, but what is interesting is that inside the Renaissance there was also a tide of thinkers and artists who were predominantly using Bible as their primary source.

Explanation:

As in the Renaissance the man is put in the center of everything, and individuality is pretty important characteristic of this period, it opposed the usual ways of thinking, according to which God and Church are dominating the everyday's life. Renaissance artist saw the ideals in Antiquity, not in Christian church. Still, many of them, such as Michelangelo closely collaborated with the church.