Ancient literature and ancient rhetorical arguments were rediscovered and used by many Humanists from the 1300’s onwards. Dr. John Rao explains that they often now attacked the Christian concern for Truth above style with many of the same arguments used against Plato. Catholic Christianity was said to limit the genius and inspiration of great men. Mystics of heretical tendency, possessing their own poetic style, joined in the assault, depicting the Church as an enemy of God because she tried to “trap” the Holy Spirit in soul-less doctrines and theological discussion.