By P.G. Bietenholz
ISBN-10: 080209905X
ISBN-13: 9780802099051
Although Erasmus is now approved as a harbinger of liberal tendencies in mainstream Christian theology, the novel - even subversive - elements of his paintings have obtained much less cognizance. starting with a redefinition of the time period radicalism, Peter G. Bietenholz examines the ways that the unconventional facets of Erasmus' writings encouraged radical reactions between 16th- and seventeenth-century readers.
Bietenholz examines the demanding situations to orthodoxy in Erasmus' scholarly paintings at the New testomony and the ways that they motivated generations of thinkers, together with John Milton and Sir Isaac Newton. Turning to different points of Erasmus' writings, the writer indicates the ways that his competition to conflict inspired radical manifestations of pacifism; how his reflections on freedom of idea and non secular toleration elicited either hot approval and fierce rejection; and the methods his severe perspective helped foster the early glossy tradition of Scepticism.
An enticing examine Erasmus' theological, philosophical and socio-political impact, Encounters with an intensive Erasmus will end up beneficial to students of humanism, theology, the Reformation and Renaissance.
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