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Most scholars today agree that the French author wrote from a perspective of Christian humanism.

This has not always been the case.

Abel Lefranc, in his 1922 introduction to Pantagruel, depicted Rabelais as a militant anti-Christian atheist.

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Screech opposed this view and interpreted Rabelais as an Erasmian Christian humanist, the view that commands majority support today.

François Rabelais himself was Roman Catholic.

Timothy Hampton writes that " to a degree unequaled by the case of any other writer from the European Renaissance, the reception of Rabelais's work has involved dispute, critical disagreement, and ... scholarly wrangling ..." But at present, " whatever controversy still surrounds Rabelais studies can be found above all in the application of feminist theories to Rabelais criticism ".