Erasmus of Rotterdam : Advocate of a New Christianity /
Christ von-Wedel, Christine
Erasmus of Rotterdam : Advocate of a New Christianity / Christine Christ von-Wedel. - 1 online resource (384 p.)
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 well-received 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, Lefèvre 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. The result is a lively picture of the man and his time, in which Erasmus emerges as both a devout Christian and a critical seeker of truth who conceded the ambiguities that he could not resolve.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442645080 9781442665712
10.3138/9781442665712 doi
Theology, Doctrinal--History--16th century.
DISCOUNT-B.
HISTORY / Renaissance.
B785.E64 / C47 2013eb
199/.492
Erasmus of Rotterdam : Advocate of a New Christianity / Christine Christ von-Wedel. - 1 online resource (384 p.)
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 well-received 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, Lefèvre 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. The result is a lively picture of the man and his time, in which Erasmus emerges as both a devout Christian and a critical seeker of truth who conceded the ambiguities that he could not resolve.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442645080 9781442665712
10.3138/9781442665712 doi
Theology, Doctrinal--History--16th century.
DISCOUNT-B.
HISTORY / Renaissance.
B785.E64 / C47 2013eb
199/.492