Erasmus of Rotterdam : Advocate of a New Christianity / Christine Christ von-Wedel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christ-von Wedel, Christine, author.

Series:

Erasmus studies.

Erasmus studies

Standardized Title:

Erasmus von Rotterdam. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology, Doctrinal--History--16th century.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Erasmus, Desiderius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides the first analysis of the development of Erasmus' historical methodology and its impact on Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians. Combining a biography of Erasmus with the larger theological debates and the intellectual history of his time, Christine Christ-von Wedel reveals many of previously unexplored influences on Erasmus, as well as his influences on his contemporaries. Erasmus of Rotterdam is a revised and considerably enlarged translation of Christ-von Wedel's 2003 study, originally published in German. Observing the influence of classical, biblical, patristic, scholastic, and late medieval vernacular and popular sources on Erasmus' writing, the author provides comparisons with theologians Agrippa, Lefevre d'Étaples, Eck, Luther, and Zwingli to demonstrate not only the singularity of Erasmus' intellect, but also the enormous impact he had on the Reformation.--Publisher description.

Contents:

Yearning for the "Golden Age" : early poems and letters in the monastery

Historical awareness : Antibarbari, Letter to Thomas Grey, Three poems from 1499, Precatio ad Virginis filium Jesum, Encomium matrimonii

Neoplatonism : Enchiridion, Letters

Erasmus's edition of Lorenzo Valla's Collatio Novi Testamenti

The praise of folly

The New Testament scholar : Novum instrumentum, Methodus, Letters

The paraphrast : paraphrases of the Gospels

How the Trinity is known : paraphrases and annotations

On the doctrine of creation : Paraphrase of John, Colloquia puerpera, Problema, and Amicitia

On the doctrine of God : the Paraphrase of John's prologue

On the doctrine of justification : Annotations and paraphrases on Romans and Galatians

Handling of doctrine : the Explanation of the Apostles' Creed

The argument with Luther : Letters, De libero arbitrio, Interpretations of Romans 9

Erasmus and the Reformers in Zurich and Basel : Letters, Advice for the Council of Basel, Contra Pseudevangelicos

The question of law : Annotation on I Corinthians 7:39, Institutio matrimonii, Epistola de interdictu carnium, Letters, Epistola de delectu ciborum scholia, Responio ad Phimostomum de divortio

The question of peace : Institutio principis christiani, Querela pacis, Dulce bellum inexpertis, Consultatio de bello Turcico, Declarationes ad censuras Facultatis Theologiae Parisiensis

Erasmus's views on women : Christiani matrimonii institutio, De vidua christiana

Erasmus as advocate of a new Christianity : Purgatio, Ecclesiastes, Letters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

Revised and enlarged translation of: Erasmus von Rotterdam.

ISBN:

9781442665729

1442665726

9781442665712

1442665718

OCLC:

852803497